Ariadna Titieni - Poorness and Richness

Poorness and Richness

“ Remember that everyone you meet in this life has something to teach you.”

I think poorness means that somebody hasn’t got something, no matter if it is money, education, food, clothes, friends and so on…

Being poor means more than not having money for a car, for clothes or even worse, for food! People are poor when they are not happy.

The rich think that the poor are just people who aren’t like them, but that’s not right. They will be poor of friends if they continue thinking like this. For both rich and poor people richness means having money, having servants or being very powerful. But you can interpret richness in another way. If you have many friends you are rich of friends, if somebody loves you, you are rich of love. Having or not having money doesn’t make you rich or poor. You have to look inside people’s hearts and see what’s in there, richness or poorness. This is the real meaning of these words.

If somebody is poor of something you have to cry for him and help him, not laugh at him. If somebody is rich of something you have to be glad for him, and not sad or envious because you don’t have the same thing.

I think that rich people (of money) should help financially the poor people (of money). But what if you yourself are not rich of money? Can’t you help people anymore? Of course you can! The people who are rich of something should try to help those who are poor of the same thing, so that they can became rich of it, too. If your heart is rich of love, don’t hesitate to offer it to others who need it, like the children in orphanages. If your head is rich of knowledge, try to teach the others what you yourself have learned through the years. Help a child learn how to read and write and you will also feel rich… in spirit.

“ Listen to your conscience: it will tell you how much to give.”