I thought about turning this drawing so it was Horizonal, but why, I asked myself? Why don’t I just leave it along? It doesn’t matter?
Then I thought about all the problems people around Marcella and I. Not the problems out of human control, but rather the problems, people generate for themselves. We get these phone call, and we hear the chit-chat and we wonder why people put up with so much crap when they could just make some reasonable, sometimes hard choices and put all that behind them? They can’t seem to get rid of a troublesome pet, or they need some new gaget, but they don’t have the money so they just make the debt bigger on the credit card… and then, to make matters worse, they call us and tell us about it and (Phew!) all Marcella and I can do is … Nothing? We just say one important prayer at the end of each day that goes like this…. “Thank you, thank you, thank you god that we don’t have to live that way!”
And then… How much money does a person need? I’ve seen rich people with gigantic problems and they just keep on doing the same thing that keeps generating the problems. Why don’t they just quit and drop off the radar? How much baggage does one need to do that? Look at where O.J. Simpson is? Look at all the crap Tiger woods is putting up with. Why do they keep wading around in it. Don’t they have enought money to just take it and run and have a life?
Marcella and I are cleaning out our attic, and basement and garage and we’re demateralizing. We’re making like simpler and it feels great. We say thank you to god, were making the house lighter and we have all the money we need, because we’re as Dave Ramsey says everyday on the radio. “Debt Free!” and that makes us rich.