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How can a person be both poor and happy?

I am having a very hard time understanding how they can be. Especially since now I am one of them. I mean all I've been doing is worrying about everything. How am I going to pay for this? For that? What am I going to do when I can no longer live here? How to prevent others from knowing of my tragic downfall? There is no time or energy left for being happy.

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Mamapolo2016 · F

The first trick is to learn the difference between ‘I want’ and ‘I need.’

A whole lot of the things we now consider as necessities didn’t even exist fifty or a hundred years ago, so they can’t be basic necessities because people lived without them since time began.

okaybut · 56-60, M

@Mamapolo2016 Well said.

Addictedtoglamour · 31-35, M

@Mamapolo2016 You should have seen me having a breakdown at the mall earlier. I wanted this super cute metallic Saint Laurent jacket. Ha can't even afford a single button on it now. That jacket was so me though.

Mamapolo2016 · F

@Addictedtoglamour No, dear. You are you. The jacket is window dressing.

Your mission now is not to try to ‘look like you’ but to actually dig down deep and BE YOU. If the image is all you need, try the jacket on and take a selfie. That’s just as really you as if you owned the jacket.

And if you DID own the jacket, how long would it be before the magic wore off and you spied an avant- garde little number made of paper clips?

Addictedtoglamour · 31-35, M

@Mamapolo2016 Honestly I'm horrible with clothes.There are two kinds. The core kind I almost always reuse and then there is the clubbing and going out kind. With the going out kind I usually wear entire outfits once and try to not duplicate them. I will mix and match them around but I try not to do the same outfit twice. Hence why I need a massive closet. That is a good idea though to take photos in expensive outfits and pretend I am still fabulous. Might make me feel a bit better. The magic does wear off after the first wear usually unless the piece was super special.

Mamapolo2016 · F

@Addictedtoglamour If you go after disposable happiness, that’s what you’ll end up with.