If When my plans work out in two years I’ll probably have more money than I know what to do with, so I’ve started a journey to learn as much as I can about money. It wasn’t a fun journey because most of the facts I found about money end up with greed and the hunger for more. That is the last thing I want in life. I want money so I can be generous, so I can be free and share that freedom with others, not to build up self gratifying wealth. So I was lost again.

Then I found this website, SwissCash Financial Facility and when I read their About Page it all started to become clear to me:

I don’t know if I have discovered the meaning of life, but I have learned a great deal about what money can and cannot do. And it can do a lot. Your money will work for you, and you will always have enough — more than enough — when you give it energy, time, and understanding. I have come to think that money is very much like a person, and it will respond when you treat it as you would a cherished friend — never fearing it, pushing it away, pretending it doesn’t exist, or turning away from its needs, never clutching it so hard that it hurts. Sometimes it’s fatter, sometimes it’s skinnier, and sometimes it doesn’t feel so good and needs special nurturing. But if you tend it like the living entity it is, then it will flourish, grow, and take care of you for as long as you need it, and look after the loved ones you left behind.

Treat it like a person. I always hated that idea. In fact the reason I want to have so much money in life is to make it disappear, so I don’t ever have to worry about it anymore. But then I guess I forgot that when anyone has that much money the last thing he’ll rid himself of are his worries. With more money you’ll have more worries. Sometimes I wonder if I should just hike into the jungle and never come back. Live a simple life with the monkeys and find my freedom in solitude. But no, because this guy (whoever he is that wrote that About Page) gave me my reason and helped me find my peace with money.

When it comes to money, freedom starts to happen when what you do, think, and say are one. You’ll never be free if you say that you have more than enough but act as if you don’t and think you don’t. You’ll never be free if you think you don’t have enough then act as if and say you do. You will have enough when you believe you do and take the actions to express that belief. And you’ll have more than enough when you realize that you can be rich with any income because you are more than your money, you are more than your job or title, than the car you drive or the clothing you wear. Your own power and worth are not judged by what money can sell and what money can buy; true freedom cannot be bought or sold at any price. True freedom, true wealth, is that which can never be lost.

Money money money. Let me get my 500 bucks out of my closet so I can make friends with it. Freedom is a bitch, huh?

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