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A Must Read For Every Youths And Olds Of Today by castrol180(m): 12:22am On Aug 24, 2017 |
10 things to avoid if you don't want to be a pauper for life. The popular saying that you are the architect of your fortune and misfortune still remain relevant till the earth wanes, as you can choose to be rich or poor. Also, the last two lines of stanza four of invictus of William Ernest Henley, “I am the master of my fate I am the captain of my soul” points to man’s ‘self will’ to make him/her whatever he so desire. In Nigeria, there use to be three scales of socioeconomic in the social arena, the high class (the wealthiest/aristocrat), the middle class (the rich people) and the low class (the poor) but in today’s settings, only two social economic classes prevails and they are the rich and the poor which I label the first class and the second class people. The gauge and parameter to measure levels between the classes remain issue of another time. In a socio economic class, one member can only be better than the other, they are still in the same category and remain a class, analogy is that of a person who can only afford a single meal for himself, his wife and single child in a day and another who is single and can also only incur for himself two meal in a day, they both fall into the poor domain as they are both poor. Likewise in the rich category we have the rich, richer and the richest who all subsist within the first social class. Been a parvenu is always a thing of joy to the new entrant of the higher social class, but this does not always last for so many as they were not ready for the class which they meet themselves and not well established if at all for the class. Examples of these parvenus are internet fraudsters who eventually make it after several period of trying and gamblers who hit it heavily after so many failures. It is always easier for a camel to enter through the eye of a needle than for a parvenu to maintain the huge proceeds from the art of sudden riches. After a period of time, the fraudster, the jackpot winner, a tournament winner, a lotto winner, a draw winner, the gambler who suddenly got their riches without preparation for it often run bankrupt, live their lives in debt and thereby declared insolvent for the rest of their lives because a blue print was not drawn before the great hit. It is highly pertinent that majority if not all including the youths and old, male and female suffer from what I refer to as ‘Get Money Quick or Sudden syndrome’ (GMQS), reason people fall victims of different con artists scam such as the popular “penny-wise of 2007” and likewise the “MMM of 2016/2017” that is still fresh in the memory of us all and which was followed by many semblance schemes. Those that benefitted from the schemes at their primal facie cannot presently beat their chest to still own up to fifty percent of the benefits in their bank account and it is not obvious that people learn their lessons from all the occurrence, for if another scam scheme is woven by swindlers to dwindle people of their hard earn money, people will still fall victims. Let me buttress it in Niccolo Machiavelli (1469-1527) words that men are so simple of mind, and so much dominated by their immediate needs, that a deceitful man will always find plenty who are ready to be deceived. And with the above insinuation, people continue living life in abject poverty, deep penury, and extremely poor condition which in my own idea is ‘self made’. And apart from the ‘self made’ pauper act, here are the ten reasons why you may not be rich... https://mymotivitain..co.ke/2017/08/10-things-to-avoid-if-you-dont-want-to.html?m=1 |
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