Hello friends,
hope all is well. Yes, I’ve missed you too yesterday… Shoo, talk about Monday starting off with a Pah Bang! I thought Chinese New Year was over. Yes-ter-day was hec-tic. I tell-ya!
There was a debate going on about this topic when I said, “Hey, wait a minute this will make a good article.” We were talking about business, this sentence that has been going on for far too long; the rich get richer and the poor get poorer, and then, we entered the topic of making money to make money and the real game of life.
Now, with my time in South Africa, I can tell you that life and business are much more aggressive, in fact in my time here, South African life has certainly given me some thick skin. I have learnt there is much of a difference between life in first world countries and life in countries similar to South Africa. There’s more competition, there’s more struggle, fewer opportunities and more hardships. In fact, I haven’t been to India, but I heard about it several times, from Indians who have been there.
After been away for 18 years in first world countries and being raised just about the same amount of time in South Africa it has given me a balanced viewpoint from both sides of the mountains and valleys. Why? In both, two different lifestyles, I still had to start from the bottom (over the course of my life, several times) and as we know you can live in any sort of life, life is still a roller-coaster, however, how one can climb from one level to the next, the education that one receives from one level to the next doesn’t necessarily bring success or can work/be applied with/to where one is, purely because market trends are different and the audience is different. With crisis and economy crashes businesses burn to the ground while others soar to the sky, the roller-coaster of life.
Which game are you in? How long are you in it for? Is it really the game of life? Or is it the false game of life?
These 5 questions above are tied to each other in anything we could choose that is long-term or something we choose that could end not so well and quickly depending on the choices we make, our morals and values, and whys.
Now, even though it happens more and frequently to people in third world countries, and no matter what education they have there are just too many people who have no choice but to take up what comes as it comes and it’s this choice that can take us off the course or keep us on the path to what we choose for ourselves from the beginning (I can speak volumes here). In third world countries, more than first world countries there are more, far more people who end up choosing a field or career coming from fear, from lack, from the realistic view of the world that, “this sort of job will sustain my life rather than looking at the success of others through passion and the struggle of this very real journey.” I can’t tell you how many people I’ve met like this.
You know, today, I was telling my dad at lunch that to earn a million and to land up with a million still calling oneself a millionaire are two very different things. Why? A millionaire who has struggled their way to make their first million and sustained it had to master much within themselves and even possibly stretch their physical, mental, emotional, spiritual self and then one can be a millionaire without knowing how to manage people, answer people, be reckless and unstable. See the difference? Experience rightfully earns a person their place in this world through continuous growth by even putting theoretical learnings into practice. Growth and investment in the self all the time. A millionaire who can master that level in the game to reach the next level is more prepared than one who has no idea about where and when to start. T. Dench Patel, 20 April 2020, 17:09
To become a self-made millionaire takes pain friends, pain. So you know when I got onto this topic the discussion that sparked me to write this was when I heard in the past and still hear of people who see a gap in the market, learn the skill, enjoy it for a time, learn to enjoy it for a time and continue until it wears out and what we hear of the most out here in this world, that there are billions of people doing what they don’t love, haven’t discovered their purpose, their why and are miserable earning 6 figure incomes and over and many are still way below that margin. You see, there’s one other, the one that I nail on the title of this article, those that get in by “cheat”, cheat their way to a quick retired life, over-charge their way in life, and then over time they are no longer in the business, over time they’ve made their millions through rip-offs, and to be retired through the quickest, immoral route… until in some way it catches up. By this moment one can never ever enter back into the industry where the rip-off money was earned. Why? It catches up with time (just the way the universe works). The truth always always comes out and people always find out.
When the discussion on this came out, the first thing I thought was this, “Who would ever want to rip themselves off?” I mean I see it as ripping off their own self-worth off their existence because the person doesn’t believe in themselves every time the person rips someone off it’s basically robbing oneself each time pulling them back, then back again from the belief that they can ever do something that is relevant to their own purpose or value, more like their own self-worth until they are so far back… Wouldn’t they want to be known for what they can best put out there that comes from the best of themselves or what existence they have had thus far? Isn’t that less tiring, isn’t that no game with oneself? T. Dench Patel, 20 April 2021, 21:11
So, when I landed on this discussion I just thought, why play the false game of life? Why not play the true game, if you really are going to play, the risks to last longer are questionable with both ways but to bet on yourself and your worth almost all the time is faith and belief at the same time, where trust cannot be seen yet is there, just as faith and belief which comes through via innate passion and skills.
And so… I thought, why wouldn’t someone want to live their worth? Why would someone cut themselves short through a false game when the taste of true life can reach its full potential and taste so damn sweet? – T. Dench Patel, 20 April 2021, 21:15
Yours sincerely,
T. Dench Patel
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