Before I went back to Canada in August, I was strung out about money. I had debt. I had inherited money that people were pressuring me to spend. By people, i mean my parents were begging me to give it to them..well demanding I do actually. The won was higher and I was all wound up about any type of discussion about money.
Then i had six weeks of doing nothing but spending money in Canada. I had time to relax and think. As I have mentioned in previous posts, I have everything I need now. This is different from everything I want. I am debt free now. i have savings and i still have money in the pension. I spend when I want to now and not so tight about budgets though that may change when I get my first paycheque since coming back. but not much really because I have nothing to spend my money on..other than people.
So why do I think my attitude change came just in time? Because if it hadn’t changed, I’d be having a nervous breakdown at whats happening in the markets around the world. One thing I am definitely glad I didn’t do. I didn’t invest my inheritance in stocks. I put it safely in a savings account. Thats why it pays not to be greedy. I have lost money in my rrsps which I am confident will go up. And any money here is just bonus money. SO at some point it may be worthless but it will cover my cost of living here and really thats all that matters.
Making sure money and materialism are not idols is a freeing exercise. This is what God wants from all of us. He doesn’t want to be enslaved by the lure of possessions and what money can buy. As can serve as a testimony to that, just observe the stock market patterns around the world.
Thank GOd, I got out of that mentality just in time.
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