Being rich, that's the dream of so many people. The same thing also hit me. In the past, when I was in high school, I saw a beautiful and big house, and in front of him sat a pair of parents again enjoying the beauty of his house, often I asked myself: will I get there? Many years after all this has passed, having met some entrepreneurs whose company wealth is worth trillions of dollars, sitting in the company's top chair, or being an advisor to not a few rich people, the rich living faces are not as attractive and as shadowy as ever.
My diving deeper even resulted in some fear to become rich. There are rich people who have sons and daughters with empty eyes as a sign of a dry life. There are entrepreneurs who look at all new people with a look of suspicion because people are often cheated, to then a little angry and cursed. There are friends who change the most luxurious car in monthly size, but must take sleeping pills if you want to sleep soundly. Some have children without my mother because they are divorced, and many more are the faces of wealth that make me afraid of material wealth.
In this level of livelihood, I suddenly read Shakti Gawain in the Sept. 2001 issue of Personal Excellence, which writes: 'If we have too many things we do not really need or want, our live becomes overly complicated'.
Apparently I am not alone in the fear of meeting a life that is very complicated because it has too many things that are not really necessary. Shakti Gawain is similar. More than afraid, at a very excessive level of matter, fear, anxiety, and even excessive attachment begin to emerge.
Still fresh in my memory, how my sleep was so disturbed on the first day when I was able to buy a car. Intermittently waking up while looking at the garage. Similarly, when just sitting in the chair person number one in the company. Attachment to sit there forever makes me almost paranoid. Everyone comes to be viewed suspiciously by the eyes. The red thread, material wealth does present joy (though only for a moment), but it is hard to deny that it also brings attachment, fear and worry. Independence, freedom, silence are all raped by material wealth.
Besides robbing freedom and silence, material wealth also generates new hopes that move forward. Taller, taller and taller. Thus wealth enormously encourages people to produce higher expectations. There is nothing wrong with having a higher expectation, as long as one can balance it with gratitude. What else if hope can encourage people to work very hard, plus sincerity to give thanks to the life. Unfortunately, in many ways, these hopes fly and run wild. And then make life run like a cat chasing its own tail.
Reflecting on and reflecting on this, I have long left a life so determined to pursue material wealth. So not insistent, to the extent that there are colleagues who call me stupid, do not understand the business, even there is a call very innocent. Fortunately, my life body is so slippery by titles. So every term, just pass without giving any meaningful marks.
There is a friend who asks, how can I get there? Whether true or not, in many circumstances it is evident that I can be in the right time, right place, with the right ability. When a company needs someone as a peace-loving leader, I am there. When many companies lose their orientation to then search for the languages of the heart, at the same time I love to talk and write with the languages of the heart. When some government groups look for young people who are ready to work with honesty, they know and remember my name. As a result, fly my life quietly and lightly. Amazingly, get there with the stubborn energy below the average of most people. Perhaps precisely what Rabin Dranath Tagore ever wrote in The Heart of God: 'let this be my last word, that I trust in Your Love'.
Because of this belief, in every prayer I always ask that all my prayers be replaced with sincerity, sincerity and only sincerity. Not only in prayer, in everyday life, too. Somebody wants to shift and lay off, I do not fight. Someone threatened with harsh words, I just balanced enough. There are friends who call this life a life that is too simple and far from complicated. But I believe, in this way we can be rich with a simple way.