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Many people are living a life of abundance and they do not realize it. They insist on miscounting their wealth – living everyday as it it were a close-call struggle for survival. This attitude brings out the barbarian in man. It makes us act on impulse. It makes us abandon reason and abandon luxury – it leads many to live a life of constant neuroticism.

What do we have to be so overprotective about? Why should we cling to every bit of property as if it were our last meal? What makes us so hesitant to give up what we do not truly need or depend on?

A dollar that sits in your wallet remains but a dollar. It is worthless. It is not real wealth – the kind that only comes from production and consumption – it is only a symbol of wealth.

Not to misrepresent savings – a practice that is crucial for accumulating capital – the only way to increase one’s potential for production and consumption, but the economist Keynes – if he was right about one thing then it was this: “In the long-run, we are all dead.” There is no amount of wealth we can gain in this world and keep after we die. Nothing we own in this life will be ours forever. Sounds scary? It’s not. It’s liberating. What we lose in clinging to our material possessions is equal to what we gain by letting go of them.

Before all else, acknowledging one’s abundance becomes a shift in perspective. It allows us to step in the handsome role of the giver and no longer remain the victim of circumstances.