Love V's Money

What an interesting experience homelessness is - unpleasant and requres alot of patience but interesting at the same time.
What I have learned on the streets is what they don't teach in schools and universities; and I'm not talking about crime, as that was never my problem nor have I committed any since this ordeal, I'm talking about values that make you happy and that no amount of money can purchase like gratitude and honesty,  integrity and faith, etc...
Let's take money for instance. Money is a vulnerable resource for meeting the basic needs but if money is all you have, you are very poor. 

Money has become people's God - most people are so busy making money a priority, they are forgetting about what's important. 
People at large, and I have especially experienced it in this culture, have the idea that money makes them happy and the more money they have the happier they will be, but this to me is stupidity, as it is my experience that happiness only comes from within and is another thing money can't buy.

In the time I have been homless I have encountered very wealthy parents of a 23 year old man (their son), who after watching my 'Little Peter Rabbit' post on linkedin, sourced me out from the streets and asked me to assist their son to overcome depression perhaps by using my natural life coaching abilities, born of experience. The medicaiton is not working anymore his mother had explanied, and she offered me top dollar for a successful outcome; which they had ever faith I could deliver - 'you just name your price', she said in desperation 'and we'll pay it'. 
They were impressed with my natural happy disposition after two and a half years of involuntary homelessness, going hungry and getting cold at nights; and wanted me to share this with their son by way of instruction in hope that it would help him overcome his unfortunate run of bad luck, which has been the major contributing factor for his depression.  
I could NOT possibly accept and refered him to St Mother Theresa's order in Borlma, The Missionaries of Charity for his restoration in faith and a connection with God, which I think will at least get him half way to finding happiness again; however, I figured out pretty quickly what his problem was. Born into a rich family who have bought him solutions his whole life, he has not had the opportunity to build life safing values that would have spared him from depression. 

I used to see alot of this in Australia with rich kids born with a silver spoon in their mouth, they are good as long as everything goes their way but the minute they stop getting what they want and money doesn't fix it, they just can't cope.
It's good to have money to be able to better enjoy your needs but it's even better to have values that money can't buy like moreality and honesty and self-love (self-love is not the same as being selfish); these are core building blocks to personal happiness.
 

...and YES, I WOULD LOVE LOTS OF MONEY, BUT ONLY TO DO THE FOLLOWING:
If I all of a sudden had millions, I would house the homeless independantly to break negative social circles that are keeping stuck in self destructive behaviours, help rebailitate inmates before their release and also build re-habilatition centres for women and children of domestic violence all around the world - TRENTESTA FOUNDATION; I would then continue to publish books and give grants every year to single mothers for free private education for their children to break the welfare cycle from the start. I would ALSO fully fund non-government (not for profit) organisations;;; however, I would not donate to government funded organisations becuase you don't really see where the money goes and who it helps and I especially would not donate a single cent to the Community Chest Fund, becuase of they denied me food vouchers and bond money to be housed and are full of red tape that enables them to pick and choose who they help - which to me is bullshit.

We only realise how worthless money is when we are all of a sudden dying of cancer or lost loved ones we can not replace.
I feel really sorry for people who have millions at their disposal and no faith and no love and no real friends. Could you imagine what it would be like to have it all and want for nothing but also not able to trust anyone becuase everyone that comes near you wants something?

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Author: Anne Agius (Dyer-Gelicrisio); 2017