S4E114 When are we going to get our priorities straight?

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Speaker 1 (0s): All right, good morning. So let's get on into it. The title of this was, when are We Going To Get Our Priorities Right or something like that. I think that's what I named this. I don't know if it will remain the same title, but I think you know what it is. So I get, I see people, all kinds of people look like me, who don't look like me.

And I've come to the conclusion that so many people are trying so hard to compete with other people. And I feel like, for example, I'm gonna talk about finances, the amount of things that people invest in just to give the appear of something else. And I feel like I've just gotten to the point where I'm mentally exhausted.

Like I don't wanna compete with people. It's not because I don't have that spirit of competition, but I don't want to have to prove anything to anybody. I look at like how like if we both make a hundred dollars, you're not impressing me with all the things that you're trying to purchase. I have the same purchasing power. If anything, I may have more because I try to save and invest, right? And I think the, that is driving me crazy is I look at people, especially those who look like me.

We have this consumption mentality. you know, we don't have a mentality where many people save and invest and have some consumption, right? Because you still wanna enjoy like, you know, some, the spoils of your reduced, right? You wanna be able to do that. Like every time you get an increase or you come across something you could take a little bit to like increase your standard of living, but ultimately you wanna save for a rainy day, maybe save for a legacy, you know, whatever. And so I find it interesting when I see people, they have all this stuff, or they do all these things, but they won't really prepare for their retirement or they won't invest in their kids.

Meaning maybe try to secure an inheritance or whatever. Unless maybe you're like independently wealthy. I'm not talking about the really rich people, I'm talking about the regular people. They go out of their way to spend money on things that don't even matter. The, and the funny thing is, I have found that like, I do like spending money on certain things, but like, as I've gotten older, no one even knows it. Like, I don't know what it is. but I don't engage in any of it.

It's so funny how I was thinking about how, look, let me just say for the record, this doesn't make me better. Maybe it does, maybe I'm just better than you. But you know, I was thinking about how I've run across people who wanna show you all their jewelry. And I don't wear a lot of jewelry. I just like my simple bearings. I do have nicer jewelry, but I never really wear it.

And I think about how like there are people who like to name drop on every article of clothing that they're wearing. And I'm like, I got, this is just a, a shirt from one of the schools that I graduated from. you know what I mean? Like, you know, I, I, I don't know, but I think the point I'm making, especially with people who look like me, you don't have our priorities, right? We wanna look good, we wanna feel good, but we don't wanna prepare for a future. There's so many people who look like me who don't have a will or trust.

And so people are like, oh, you have a trust. I'm like, we absolutely have a trust. We don't prepare for any of those things. And, and I don't wanna like speak to the law or anything like that. So you may wanna speak with fine, go talk to somebody about the difference between the will and trust. But I'm just kinda like, you don't wanna put away anything. You're so obsessed with appearing to be something else to look like something else. So like, it's literally starting to rain.

I don't even know if I wanna record a video while I was raining because can you hear that? Can you hear the, the tapping against my windshield Anyway, the point I'm making is, okay, it's lightning up. The point I'm making is we have a very huge consumption problem. And I'm not saying I'm perfect. I'm not perfect at all. There was a period of time I was like, I, I must collect garbage pail kits. I don't know what was getting into me. Then I was like, I must collect coins.

Didn't even know what I was doing. I stopped doing all that. I'm like, what am I doing? I'm spending money for no reason. Anyway, I just wanted to throw that out there. This wasn't meant to be a long video. I just wanted to highlight that. Like, our priorities are so messed up. We, we are constantly fed these images from Holly LD on what we should be doing, what we should be wearing, how we should be acting. We get on social media, we see all of these people wearing certain things, doing certain things, accumulating certain things.

And I'm like, that's not real life. If those things aren't gonna make you happy in the long run, 'cause you're gonna start accumulating all of this stuff. And then what? So like, dude, like, you know, have to get older. Thank you. I was coming off of a a ramp. So I was just kinda like they do these tasting. I'm like, so now you acquire all of these material goods, then what? What's next? What's next? So anyway, that's all I've got.

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