Rich or poor?What lifestyle do you think it would suit you better?

@icesmile (7160)
Romania
April 14, 2010 1:27pm CST
I saw to Discovery a fascinating story about very rich people life style . And i talk about true rich people, ( the names of those who passed the one billion euros). And i saw a Russian, very, very, very rich; he showed houses - palaces, with super art by themselves, like paintings of millions, hundreds of years old sculptures, ancient statues. I saw where they put cars , where they eat, how show the private plane that attend local (a local drink in London where only one kind of old whiskey which cost 623 pounds wet. Pounds Sterling ). But i saw what kind of home security systems is how many bodyguards accompany him and the crapper, how thick is the armor car, as he take heart aches when he sees the stock market goes down. And you start to ask yourself: if there is no middle way - i mean enough money to have one house, put food on the table, take a gift to your loved ones from time to time, to take a vacation, to raise a child - What do you choose? Rich or poor?And good health - as this money can not buy too is gone. When you're rich that's at stake? To have more and more and more + do not lose what you have. Food losing its flavor because you can taste everything. Is accessible anywhere in the world. Good times rolling it away from a signature. Joys that come from? Yes, maybe in her rich, primordial joys are the same: to love and be loved, to be healthy, enjoy partner or children. But the small details that tell you you won a battle at any moment where are they? How is to the "poor". When i say poor I do not mean that poor sleep in the street in a cardboard box. I talk about to the savers who want to buy a child's cake, a flower for wife, who escaped in a restaurant once a year on the anniversary of marriage, which calls on mobile only when they have something to say or to find out. Or not mobile. You choose to live with the fear that tomorrow may not have to put on the table enjoying but for all you got, or you choose to live fearing you will not shoot up a rival in the head but allowing you all can give a billion in the bank account? Rich or poor? When you can live longer, really?
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@megamatt (14292)
• United States
16 Apr 10
When you go at both sides of this spectrum, whether it be rich or poor, there are a lot of problems that go with both of them. I would rather be at the middle. Not completely poor but not where I could not be classified as being rich. Not being middle class really either, but of course the middle class is dwindling each and every day. Still, I would rather not be completely rich or completely poor. When you are completely poor, life tends to be an entire mess of absolute uncertainty and can be completely and utterly horrifying. You might know where your next meal may come. If it comes. There is terror around every corner. Not to mention that all the pratfalls. Even if you have just enough to get buy, you are trying to figure out ways to stretch a little a long way and that can be stressful enough. Being rich on the other hand, also has its problems. You have all of that money and you can do anything with it. The problem is, it can be something that is difficult to manage. The fact is that you become lazy with all of that richness. I mean, you want to accomplish anything, but why would you do that? You just have the money. Therefore it is no ambition, nothing worth living. A scary, endless existence of absolutely nothing. So really, it is an extremely pointless existence as you have it all so why do anything to better yourself? In the end neither a rich or a poor existence would be something that I would enjoy. Rather, a comfortable existence is something that I would prefer. Fewer worries. I have enough to get buy plus a little extra. However, not too much, as I am able to keep on the ball and thus be able to improve myself instead of being lazy and too comfortable, without any forward ambition.
@tigeraunt (6326)
• Philippines
15 Apr 10
dear ice, i choose to just have enough. not rich, not poor. just a roof over my head where i will not be afraid to be ejected while i and my loved ones are alive, some money and savings that when i want to buy something, i can. it doesnt have to be branded because those are expensive. just a comfortable life would be wonderful. have a nice day. ann
@ridwan08 (1183)
• Indonesia
14 Apr 10
i want to be rich,mean rich in my heart.it's a trully rich,rich i thing not only about material.many people now rich material but they poor about heart,they agitated,insomnia,unhappy,lonely and more.and many people not rich or middle poor but their happy,because their heart are rich
14 Apr 10
Of course I would chose to be rich. I wouldn't class myself as poor...yet, but I do worry about where the money is going to come from to pay the bills etc. Because of this I don't think being rich would turn me iinto a spendaholic. I love shopping for bargains so that would never leave me, and I would still barter at the markets.
• India
14 Apr 10
rich