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Count your blessings?

He asks: “When you’re surrounded three-deep by bad people, how can good people come near you?”

I think he’d made a good point but generally you cannot say this to a young person, who always tends to say they want to have money first and then see what happens.

Well, that’s what I like them to do, too because I realize most people do need a concrete experience of something to have a concrete feeling of it. Their mind doesn’t work very well when it comes to the abstract. They need to feel everything first hand to know it’s real.

In today’s age of mega materialism, young people are often led to equate money with wealth and wealth with happiness. As a result, everywhere you look, you see people going after money first and foremost, and often in a manner so straightforward and direct that it’s embarrassing. They don’t seem to mind the embarrassment, though, because they just want it so bad. And they want it now, not later.

Things have gotten to such a point that it is very hard to tell young people to rely on honest and hard work to get ahead even though in the long run honesty remains the best overall policy.

And that’s the thing. The long run. It’s too long. They cannot see that far.

At any rate, the speaker seems to be trying to say that counting cash, which stands for material wealth, won’t make you happy. Instead, you should count your blessings and realize how lucky you are, how lucky you already are.