Letters: My Mother's Lesson.

Dear Friend,

Some years ago, my mother told us something that I couldn’t comprehend at the time.

It was a statement that went against the conventional norms of what society believed or what they apparently wanted us to believe. 

It took me years to fully understand this, not because I wasn’t smart enough, but because society has blindfolded us all, including me, of course.

I can still remember it, when my mom told us that day: “It’s the poor that are wasteful, not the rich.”

How could my mom say such? I felt that day.

We had been programmed to believe that it was the rich that book flight when they could have boarded a plane, 

we had been programmed to see the rich as wasteful by eating and not finishing their food, by technically clearing the food contents, 

to believe that they build houses they can’t possibly live in at all, 

to believe they waste money on cars, clothes, and other things we call ‘VANITIES’.

Of course the rich are wasteful, I revolted in my mind, they throw away food.

Years later, I realized to my initial dismay that my mom was right, and in my childlike ignorance, I couldn’t see what she saw when she made that statement.

The rich understand one thing more than the poor: The Act of Saving.

The poor buy stuff in bits; the rich buy in bulk. 

The rich buy time with money; the poor trade time for money.

The rich understand preservation; the poor simply don’t and live for today only while justifying their myopic sense with this song verse: "this life I can't kill myself..."

Now, I’m not really talking in the literal sense… It’s figurative…

But, get this one thing! Learn the act of saving. It will save you.

Refuse to be wasteful. I know why I’m bringing this up at this moment.

It’s the festive period. It’s Christmas, the year is coming to an end, another year is fast approaching. 

This is the time when people are plagued with the ‘curse of wastefulness.’

They are blown away with spending Money, Attention, Energy, and Time on irrelevant stuff. 

You remember the MEAT concept? From John Obidi.

Cultivate the habit of the rich. They are concerned with saving, and not just saving, but saving the things that are worth saving. 

Save.

Save.

Save.

Don’t be a wasteful human being. Save your MEAT. 

I wish you a December filled with good things, and remember to live this festive period with the mentality of a rich person, not like a rich person.

PS: There's a difference between being poor and simply lacking money. Being rich and having money.

It's in the MINDSET!

Love and light!

&

Rooting for you, and I trust you too are rooting for me.

Best Regards,

Joseph Chisom Ofonagoro.

Till I write next, Goodbye!