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Advantages Of Being Poor. by misreal(m): 7:45pm On Dec 31, 2014
WEIGHT LOSS
Think about all the weight you could lose if you couldn’t
afford all the delicious meals you enjoy every day.
It’s really hard to have the necessary self-discipline to
avoid a meal but if you are poor you don’t need that
discipline simply because you don’t have food.
Imagine if the financial circumstances make it
impossible for you to eat; it would be like having your
own personal diet coach, and having it for free!
Poor people don’t have business meetings, work
conferences or job training all day long; they just have
free time to spend inside their little houses.
Without obligations to their shareholders, partners and
regional managers, they can just take off spontaneously
and take naps on their small beds.
MISCONCEPTION..
Poor people have the wrong idea that being rich is a
piece of cake but we know it is absolutely exhausting.
We have so many possessions to manage and worry
about, many businesses to keep going and inversions to
preserve that we are always trying to figure out how to
simplify our lives because it’s very time consuming
having to manage a fortune.
Poor are extremely lucky, they don’t have nothing to
simplify because their lives are naturally simple since
they don’t possess anything and they have nothing to
care about.
We are all day trying to prioritize and decide how to
spend the little free time we have in our hands; poor
people don’t have that struggle, they can spend the
entire day doing nothing thanks to their lack of
possessions.
Sometimes when I listen other rich people trying to build
orphanage in Africa or get financial aid to poor countries
I realize how mean they are, why would they like to take
all this happy poor people out of poverty and take away
the reason of their happiness.
It’s also true that poor people can easily became rich
just by stop doing poor people activities like not going
to work or not investing wisely but clearly they don’t
want to.
They are poor because they want to, and that’s because
they know that it’s so much fun.
That’s why they don’t travel, don’t learn languages and
are always thinking about mundane things like being
hungry or paying bills.
Poor people have everything we have, just
smaller
Poor people have a lot less money than we do to spend
on their houses so their houses are not as nice as ours.
Maybe they only have one house or they can only afford
one or two bedrooms in that little house but all those
details are not important.
If you have the right perspective, you can be as
comfortable as you are without having 3 rooms to select
where to sleep every night.
My point is, poor people always make a big deal about
not being able to afford this or that when the truth is
that they can have anything that we have, just smaller.
They may not be able to afford a nice car but why can’t
they be happy using the bus? Not everything needs to
be done the way we do it, trust me.
Success.....
Being poor is something you have to be grateful for
because being poor empowers and motivates. If you’ve
got nothing then you’ve got nothing to lose.
The biggest deterrent of success is fear and you can
avoid the fear of losing money by being poor.
Poverty also harnesses your talents because without
money you have to use them to survive and that boosts
ambition.
When you grow up having everything you don’t have a
reason to effort because feeling material fulfillment lead
us to believe that there is nothing else to achieve in life.
Poor people don’t get that feeling and there’s where
ambition comes from.
Re: Advantages Of Being Poor. by elantraceey(f): 7:46pm On Dec 31, 2014
Even if i'll choose to still remain super duper rich undecided
Re: Advantages Of Being Poor. by Galadimabawa: 7:53pm On Dec 31, 2014
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Re: Advantages Of Being Poor. by dkronicle(m): 8:02pm On Dec 31, 2014
Not for me and my fameelie
Re: Advantages Of Being Poor. by herald9: 8:05pm On Dec 31, 2014
Back to sender undecided
Re: Advantages Of Being Poor. by misreal(m): 9:35pm On Dec 31, 2014
Galadimabawa:
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Nairaland
Re: Advantages Of Being Poor. by misreal(m): 9:36pm On Dec 31, 2014
elantraceey:
Even if i'll choose to still remain super duper rich undecided
lol
Re: Advantages Of Being Poor. by Nobody: 9:45pm On Dec 31, 2014
it's ur position alone and not for your families
Re: Advantages Of Being Poor. by misreal(m): 9:46pm On Dec 31, 2014
shollynoob:
it's ur position alone and not for your families
hahajahahahah
Re: Advantages Of Being Poor. by asalimpo(m): 10:16pm On Dec 31, 2014
op edit ur post, highlight d main points. Or were too poor to pay attention in english class? *# JUMBLED RUNNING WRITEUP *
Re: Advantages Of Being Poor. by asalimpo(m): 11:12pm On Dec 31, 2014
They're are actually real advantages to experiencing extended periods of poverty . Though not for tht to be your perennial state.
If you learn d lessons in tht period you'll come out a better person for life.

You use things longer
you really squeeze out the utility in a thing and use things for extended periods, where otherwise you'd hav thrown them away.
Using things for longer periods actually increases the psychological satisfaction from using it.

You have greater Freedom from buy-ities
Societies, self definition concept of a happy person is some1 up to their neck in stuffs.
More stuff than they need.
Some hav clothes in their ward robe theyve never used until they got obsolete! Y tht waste ? Buyities.
Not having money to waste saves ufrom this fever.

You develop and enjoy simple pleasures
With no distracting gadgetary,
the poor chill out by age old human interaction.
Chatting,having small talk , enjoyng the rythms of nature.

How much are these pleasures worth? You dont value them till theyre gone.

You learn to subsist on less
Some people have gotten so used to affluence, that things literally own them. They need all kinda money to buy all kinda things,they think they must have to be alive.
Some women's cosmetic budgets alone , some guyz eat-out bills alone. Only wen they get poor do some findout they were living on junk.
Wen you've gone 3 days regularly without food, you learn tht you can really live without food.
Wen you hav no generator, you learn tht stayg a nite without light wont kill you.
You get military grade training for free. This builds self discipline,discipline, silver spoon kids lack cuz they never had it. Which explains why most ppl born into wealth,squander their family inheritance within a lifetime .
(see The Millionaire next door).


You became more detail oriented.

The affluent cud turn a blind eye on shortages but not those who are borderline lack victims. Every penny will be accounted for, no stray kobo runs away. You don't take things for granted and you respect money no matter the amount.

You cherish the things you have more
The way the poor cherish their luxuries is something to behold.
It is the rich who are quick to disdain write off discard a thing simply because they can afford to.
They change cars , phones,clothes,spouse etc very quickly and are quickly dissatisfied with anything . Actually, their restlessness increases.
However, those who out of circumstances hav to use what theyve gat or do without really bcome keener users and more careful with whatthey have. In the end wen they hav to replace it or want to replace it, they may find out tht they had formed a bond with it and the item has a solid place in their hearts. They don't discard it like trash but gently lay it to rest like a departed loved one.
Re: Advantages Of Being Poor. by AfricanApple(f): 12:46am On Jan 01, 2015
I can tell what a very dull life op is gonna live

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