I live 10 miles north of where I grew up. Mom still lives in the house that dad was born and died in. I am the youngest of 8 kids and 5 of us live within 10 miles of "home".
We never had a lot of money, but we were never hungry and always had a dry place to sleep. Somehow, after all of that, mom & dad managed to put away enough money to live better in retirement than they did while working.
Those of us that went to college paid our own way. When we would come home for a rare weekend visit, mom would send us back with a cooler full of meat and food supplies, that was about the only help we got.
I'll be 47 in November, not rich, but doing OK. Our vehicles aren't new anymore, but they are paid for. If everything goes as planned, we'll be debt free by the end of the year. My upbringing (and my wife's) about working hard and making do, taught me as much as my degree from college.
Now, for the sermon:
I hurt my shoulder, loading hogs, about 8 weeks ago. I'm just about back to being about 75%, which is good for where I was at. I always thought it was dopey when people said "as long as you had health, you had everything".
I'll tell you what, I spent 3 nights of not being able to sleep because of the pain. I was just about done in. I have a new respect/understanding for anyone living with real chronic pain, I don't know how they do it. About halfway through the second night of being sleep deprived, I started wondering what it was going to be like to never get better.
The look in my wife's eyes, the morning after my first night of sleep, told me how much she cared and how lucky I am.
I'll never be rich, there will always be someone better off than us, and there will probably always be alot worse off.
Be happy with what you have, work for more but don't let it consume you. My mom always said "You have to grow where God plants you, you just have to be smart enough to know when you're planted". I guess I'm planted.
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