Today I was listening to NPR. I do find it funny that at this point in my life I'd rather listen to talk radio (mostly) then listen to the music on the radio. I never thought this day would come. However, this is not the purpose of this post.
On Talk of the Nation, a daily show, they were talking with people who have lost everything. One guy moved he and his family to New Orleans for a new job just 2 months before Katrina. Another woman just recently lost everything because of the "Madoff debacle." They were discussing their change in perspective on money, life, and just stuff in general. The show was taking callers who have lost everything at one point or another in their lives and how they moved on.
What was interesting to me was how positive most of these people were about their situations. They laughed they made jokes and they generally had the same thing to say.
1.) Money isn't as important as we once thought.
2.) Our families really are all that matter in the long run, so make sure they matter in the short run too.
3.) Stuff comes and goes. Get over it.
4.) Look for the positive in every situation, otherwise you will not be able to move on.
It made me wonder though, do we have to lose everything we own in this life, all our money, all our temporal belongings to understand these ideas? I sure hope not.
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