How do you define wealth anyway. How narrowly. How broadly. What does it include. What does it exclude. When you first hear it or think of it what is the first thing that pops into your mind. Is it wealth means money. Is it wealth means health. Is it wealth means time.Is it wealth means love. Is it wealth means………what. Fill in the blank.
As you get older the definition changes. Wealth starts taking on a whole new context and meaning.
I saw the Bentley drive by. It was something. Black and sweet looking.As it passed I saw the couple inside it. One was shouting into a cellphone while the other was gesturing frantically about something.They looked sad to me. It looked like life had taken its toll on them both. Not the image of health or a light of joy inside at all but the car was nice.
How do we define wealth. Would you trade the car in for one more dance with your first love…who hopefully is your current love too…or one more ride at the rodeo.
I think of Citizen Kane and rosebud. How do you measure the wealth of a life lived.
In the end what is the wealth of your life. What is the treasure in your life. An ageless experiment.
Wealth. Maybe it is finding the balance in your life. That delicate dance of balance.