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I've been thinking about this question since I was a teenager.

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How can I be wealthy?

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Money and wealth aren't that important, you'll realize it when you meet your basic needs of food at the table, fast internet, car, motorbike, and maids.

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Money isn't really important, what is important is peace of mind, people who love you, spiritual fulfillment, work that you love, and an honorable profession.

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Well, that's bullshit, wealth is important but few know how to get there. Is it difficult and requires hard work? I don't think so, but it's hard to be rich if you're from small humble beginnings.

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You can be happy in the middle class, and that is what you should aspire to, which is the vast majority of people.

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I know one guy who's very ignorant but very rich, at the same time I know one of the smartest people I ever knew who's very poor. Do you get that? Isn't about the mind either.

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But please educate yourself and write proper English and don't be like me 😆

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I am a tireless traveler. Travel makes me feel good, gives me energy, and makes me happy.
I was just in ayyuthaya (ancient city near Bangkok) I only had a rough idea of how to get around and I rented a bicycle instead of a motorbike cus I was a cheapskate. It ended up being 100x harder to get around and 100x more confusing. But the fun was that I just went where I felt was right. At each of the ruins, I had lovely conversations with other travelers about their trips and the locals are always helpful when I was absolutely lost.
Travelling may bring people joy through many ways. You may like to see beautiful cities and their landmarks, or simply their architecture and general atmosphere. You may want to see how different nature is around the globe and how surprising it may be to see the great outdoors. You may want to engage in different activities, from paragliding to dance classes, from rafting to riding camels in the desert, from balloon trips to hiking on mountains... you may want to experience different cultures and foods, you may want to know the history of the world in museums, or you may just want spend a few days relaxing in a beach or in a secluded lodge... you may want to know people from other places or you may want to go to big parties in a place where nobody knows you. These are some of the reasons why people travel, and only a few of them are applicable to me, for instance. Maybe some of these will appeal to you, or maybe none at all. It's for those moments that you just can't experience by staying home. I just got back from a trip where I could watch the sun come up while overlooking cliff dwellings at Mesa Verde and nobody else was around. There was a buffalo munching on grass right outside my cabin one evening. I've had too many extraordinary experiences to count over the years and that's what keeps me getting out there to places I've never been to.
My main hobby was photography. I then got into travel, and found that they were very complementary hobbies. The thrill of enjoying and taking in some place new is a cool buzz, especially when you have a camera in your hand and want to capture the moment to help relive it later on.
It's really hard to explain to be honest, it's just a feeling of exhilaration and excitement I get when I get to see new places and exploring an unknown (to me) area. It's a kind of passion which I don't really experience when doing anything else. The world we live in is so beautiful and there's so many amazing things to see, and I just enjoy seeing them :) whether it be interesting sights, cities, nature, or just people. At the end of the day we only have so much time on this Earth, I figure I may as well try and see as many interesting places as possible!

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When I was in the Army I got accepted into the biomedical program at the University of Washington. My girlfriend at the time talked me into going back to Michigan for the summer, my plan was to head straight to Washington and get settled and she was going to join me after a month or so. Well I went to Michigan. Then she talked me into putting it off for a semester which I did. Then she dumped me for another guy. Well here I am in Michigan still, now going to a community college. Fucking women will ruin your life if you let them.
This is for the dads out there. When my kids were little I went through this weird selfish stage (the reason isn't important) which as a result I missed several of their birthday parties. Blew it off at the time but years later it started to really bother me. They usually went to one specific pizza / gaming place, and I can't drive past it now without feeling regret.
Not meeting someone I met on-line that could very well have changed my life. He's well known in his genre of books, but I was hesitant because of a couple of things that seem rather silly and petty now. Couple of months ago I had another opportunity to meet him face to face, I was embarrassed to approach his table because of our on-line relationship (it became sexual). I regret that I cannot be a fan on his FB page and interact with fellow fans, I'm so embarrassed by what we did.
Not changing my major to something else when I came home from college to a community college. tl;dr I had a nervous breakdown at a small Catholic college because it was cultish and I didn't fit it. I also was an education major and went with it in community college until I transferred to another college and saw designing lesson plans was not for me.
Six years ago I broke up with a long time girlfriend, she was coming out of a severe deppression due to the death of her parents in a car accident, we were fighting one night, I don't even remember why, I just remember it was a stupid meaningless fight. It was 2 am, she told me she never wanted to see me again, then grabbed her keys to her motorbike and left. She was drunk too, She drove out to the beach and drowned herself. I still know I could have and should have stopped her.
This is probably going to sound like a petty first-word problem, but I have huge regrets about not accepting my admission to the Naval Academy. I was already enlisted in the Marine Corps at the time and the thought of signing away 10 more years of my life scared me away at the last minute.
I ended up finishing my enlisted contract and going to an Ivy League college, so it's not like it had any negative effect on my life, but I still regret it a lot and get really jealous every time a new class starts their plebe year. By now I'm too old to attend, even if I wanted to.

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Those three ideas are always floating around, but I just need time to actually go. As for my next trip, I have no idea. If it's not a long, multi-week trip, it's very spontaneous. I may decide to take a trip to French Polynesia out of the blue one day, and you'll catch me on the next flight out. I actually do this semi-frequently, as whenever I need to focus on an important essay for one of my classes, I'll leave town for a few days to focus. Small <1 week trips are always spontaneous and I go wherever I feel like. It's the bigger trips that require planning and lots of time.
Before I watched the video series in Vietnam though I really wanted to travel to Italy and explore the country in depth. So I was also in the beginning stages of planning a trip to Italy (both of these trips would be over a year away because I just recently booked a flight to Lisbon to start a 5 month solo trip already).
So now I’m just planning over a year in advance honestly. I’m thinking when I get around to my next trip I would do 2 months in Vietnam on a motorbike, a month in Taiwan, 2 and a half months in Italy and finish off with 2 weeks in Malta. (again I only really thought of Taiwan from posts on this subreddit, and then from lurking in google maps I saw popular tourist attractions that looked beautiful, so I thought taiwan would be cool to visit)
Money is a big factor for me and skyscanner has been a life saver with its wide search options. I can look at worldwide prices for a given month. They have some results from iffy sites though so you have to be smart but I’ve booked most of my vacations because of deals found there. I do more nature/dive trips (done lots of the Caribbean) now while I’m relatively young but sometimes I feel like I’m missing out on European cities but hopefully I’ll live long enough and see those when I’m a bit older and not as keen on scuba diving and hiking all the time. Thailand and Cambodia is my top dream trip though and I’ve decided to do it next fall regardless of the cost.
For example - I was looking for a place to go to. fiddling about on a flights site. Hmm Ireland maybe? I could split the time with Scotland? oh wait these are some seriously cheap rides to Istanbul...hell yes Istanbul it is! Do I know anything about Istanbul? no....nothing more than what Ive come across in passing...Well lets go find out. In another case its more planned. My GF is finishing nursing school (seriously bad ass) and we have talked for a long time about going to Morocco. She was there with her family when she was young. And I love me some middle eastern stuff. So Ive always kept that destination on hold as "our thing". So I was fiddling about again with flights and I was seriously considering Spain. The idea of roaming Spain by train had serious pull for me. And my GF says "I think Im going to take a break between degrees this spring" well hey girlfriend, can I take you to Morocco?

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I was once on a train and I witnessed a man viciously verbally abusing a boy around the age of 7 or 8. He was yelling at the kid, calling him stupid, telling him that he was worthless, and no one loved him. When the kid started crying, the man laughed and called the boy a pussy. He told him that his mother didn't love him and that if he was going to keep crying, he should just kill himself.
There are a series of unfortunate events in my life upon which I look back and think to myself, "If only I hadn't made that decision." Thing is, there is always a decision preceding it that ultimately led me down the wrong path anyway. In adult life, I'd have to say moving from California to Texas in an effort to satisfy my wife's insatiable material appetite and buying the big shiny house. Wife's gone now, house is gone now, and I live in a shitty rent house in Texas with no friends, and unable to move back because of agreements on geographic proximity concerning the child. In younger life, I was a very good musician. I got recruited to some really top notch music schools, but I listened to my high school counselor, and opted to go to a regular college in pursuit of a traditional white collar career. Turns out I just don't have the personality to survive long in an office environment, and I've got no outlet to express myself. I undoubtedly would've been much worse off financially, but my very being would have been a lot more satisfied.
Six years ago I broke up with a long time girlfriend, she was coming out of a severe deppression due to the death of her parents in a car accident, we were fighting one night, I don't even remember why, I just remember it was a stupid meaningless fight. It was 2 am, she told me she never wanted to see me again, then grabbed her keys to her motorbike and left. She was drunk too, She drove out to the beach and drowned herself. I still know I could have and should have stopped her.
That I let people (mostly concerned family) talk me out of pursuing computer and electrical engineering in college. Med school never worked out, so if I could change one thing in my life, it would be that. I can't afford another bachelor's, but I'm learning to program now (never too late for that). I generally live with no regrets, but that is the biggest thing that comes closest to a regret.
I wasn't a bad kid. I didn't do drugs, steal, or anything really stupid like that. I was very well behaved. I just didn't do my homework. I was a fast learner, and would get A's and B's on my tests, but since homework was like 80% of my grades in high school, I was failing classes. I knew I wanted to be a software engineer when I was only 15. But since I didn't do my homework, even after spending an extra year in high school, I didn't have enough credits to graduate, so college didn't happen.

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A true name is a true description ~ to truly know one's loved-one's name . . . . is to know everything about them.
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~ I don't think this is possible ~ to know how one will feel, act, react . . . . until one actually experiences such an horror . . .
~ you have already labelled it 'cheating' . . . .
~ I would reserve such a label for the 'Master Cheat Of All Time' - 'Death' , aka , the 'Final Enemy'
~ perhaps I would smile and say, "I'm glad you experienced , hope you enjoyed" . . . . because , hell, there are worse things . . . . . to get all wound up by such a shallow thing , indicates a shallow & harsh judge, evidently incapable of knowing spiritual love . . .
Maybe even seek the the person out . . . . share grief . . . who knows ; if worthy ~ if not, it was nothing . . .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqzs_dTIBC4

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