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See Why You Shouldn't Get Wealthy Or Famous! by moderatorr: 10:19pm On Mar 26, 2013
Read this before you get very rich or famous

So you really want to get very rich and very famous? Its good though, but I think it’s over hyped. People rarely talk about the downside of it all. I would be listing the downsides of getting rich that I think you should consider before you move on to the wealth – if you would still want to after this article.


Getting very rich will get you some basic things like these:


Holidays and
Travels
Private Jet
Mansion
Funding for your passion
Gold teeth
Tattoos all over your body
Extra Rings for your nose,eye brows and and tongue
Sex as many times as you want it
Good health care
Great Outfit
Respect

Feel free to substitute your own desires and illusions. Personally, I’d love to buy a growing third world country and sell it when it becomes a first world country . grin

Now let’s get down to the pros and cons, having a lot of money has a number of disadvantages especially if you didn’t pass through poverty, struggle and suffering to get it. If your wealth came over night, like inheriting the wealth of a dead loved one, then the drawbacks am about to list will be more pronounced in your life:

Die young: We’ve seen curt cobain shoot himself, Whitney Houston take drugs until she drowned in a bathub, Michael Jackson, Private Jet Plane crashes etc. Only the rich can afford to be taking such heavily expensive hard drugs that could trigger depression and in turn suicide when they are not taken. Only the rich ride in private jets, if it crashes like we’ve some times seen, only the rich die. We watched Dagrin get drunk in a night club and attempt to drive himself back home late at night in his new car, you know the end of the story – he crashed and died. If he wasn’t rich, he wouldn’t be driving a car in the first place

Loss of Peace: Money may take away your peace. You are always after who wants to cheat you in business and who isn’t. You have armed body guard around you and around your house always. This is even more frustrating for your children. As they cant mix freely with other children and can’t tell why. They could get kidnapped.
If you aren’t stingingly rich, your neighbors won’t be a threat to your life. They don’t have to.

End of your goals and ambitions: Children born into money and people who got so rich along the way see with their own eyes as their dreams disappear. This leaves them no purpose to live for. No joy of struggle and victory which is inherent in humans. This lack may cause our next point.

Imbecility/Stupidity/Low IQ/Madness: Have you ever heard about crazy things super rich people do? Buying a yatch for as much as $20m . Would they abandon their house and live in a boat? What does it make them? Columbus J . No dreams, so children of super rich people find themselves doing crazy things like drawing tattoos all over their body, looking for trouble everywhere and so on, developing stupid phobia that was never there.

Denied Childhood: People who get rich too early, loose their child hood. All the joys of playing in the dirt, practicing acrobatics with other children. Lizard hunting in the thicket. Making paper planes, sand shoes and houses, riding bicycles with other pals etc are lost. Child millionaires are constantly in the midst of grown-ups - body guards, coaches, private teachers etc. If you want to swim, their is indoor pool. Need to watch telly? There's plasma on the wall. Want to mould sand? We have simulated clay outside. This was the greatest problem of Michael Jackson - he was on the lime light even before 7! . He said that was the real reason he so much loved to be around children. Justin beiber has also confirmed this in one of his interviews - he cant be allowed to get back to his old school mates. He met lime light at 16 and instantly lost all his real buddies.

Being Judged unfairly: [/b]Most poor people think all rich people cheated them. You are in this category so when something bad happens to you, be ready to have sadists in their millions. Most People are tempted to think you are “lucky” or that your money fell from the skies. Or that you owe it to humanity to help them since you now have more money than them.

[b]Someone is richer than you:
La la la la , it never ends, you will always see someone richer than you. It’s a fault you’ll never be able to fix.
You’ll never get that awesome feeling of being in want and struggle, then finally getting the solution that what you desire. It’s a fulfilling desire you’ll never ever get again, except you kill yourself and start all over again! Which is what many do.
Suicide: everything becomes boring so you are tempted most of the times to kill yourself out of depression or loneliness of living in a large well fortified lonely mansion with no neighbours.
Lack of true friends: all you ever get is business partners and false friends who love you for your money. No real friends again.
Confusion: buy a new house, sell it, buy another, crumble it, build another. Live a little while there, then sell it and start all over again in another state J You are forever confused because you can do almost anything you want, the opportunity cost does not mean anything to you again

[
but getting rich the right way and time is just priceless, dont trade it for anythingb]Originally written by[/b] Dave Ozoalor www.dwitch.com

Re: See Why You Shouldn't Get Wealthy Or Famous! by Les: 10:43pm On Mar 26, 2013
I've heard wat you said. But i still prefer riches to being poor......
Re: See Why You Shouldn't Get Wealthy Or Famous! by tpia5: 10:59pm On Mar 26, 2013
i think most people would rather take the riches, regardless.

happiness is often tied to money, or stereotyped as being money.
Re: See Why You Shouldn't Get Wealthy Or Famous! by tpia5: 11:00pm On Mar 26, 2013
Being Judged unfairly: Most poor people think all rich people cheated them. You are in this category so when something bad happens to you, be ready to have sadists in their millions.

very true sha.

although funny enough, when i was growing up poor in nigeria, i did not resent those who were richer? Even when i saw people eating and living well while i chop beans tire. Dont even talk about meat, no be my no-money i go take buy am?

see, this is one of the reasons why i consider myself weird. undecided I should be resenting others who are not like me, after all, its what everybody does.
Re: See Why You Shouldn't Get Wealthy Or Famous! by Redoil: 11:06pm On Mar 26, 2013
PARADOX OF LIVE: super abundance of everything is detrimental to the doer. The rich should continue to kill themselve out of desperation while the poor should continue to kill themselve out of frustration.
Re: See Why You Shouldn't Get Wealthy Or Famous! by TechRev: 11:16pm On Mar 26, 2013
Redoil: PARADOX OF LIVE: super abundance of everything is detrimental to the doer. The rich should continue to kill themselve out of desperation while the poor should continue to kill themselve out of frustration.

The rich commit suicide while the poor commit murder.
Re: See Why You Shouldn't Get Wealthy Or Famous! by dhardline(m): 11:38pm On Mar 26, 2013
And although the Bible says 'its will be easier for a camel to pass thru the eyes of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God,' people still want to be rich by all means. undecided
Re: See Why You Shouldn't Get Wealthy Or Famous! by GalaxyNoteII: 3:16am On Mar 27, 2013
Nigeria is full of so many Lazy minds.

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