All the Money In the World

You can be prosperous and you can be rich, but just because you are rich doesn’t mean you are prosperous. Prosperity means you are making more wealth with each passing day. Riches, means that you have a large sum of money, they are two different things, and there lies why some are people poor, and why some are rich.

If someone was to inherit a large sum of money, if someone was to find treasure, or if someone was to win the lottery, they would be rich. On the other hand, if someone built up a company from nothing and was receiving wealth from it or if someone was able to use their hands and with everything they touched they turned it to gold, you could say those individuals were prosperous.

The difference between those, is that riches are just something you got saddled with, but being prosperous is about you, as an individual making your own fortune. Furthermore, sometimes, with those who have riches, aren’t really wealthy, or truly well off. The reason so, is that the reason someone is prosperous is that they are are so because of their life choices.

Often those with riches squander it, because they never had the skills to deal with it, the maturity to deal with it, and the life lesson of earning those riches. With some people who do have sudden wealth, it can sometimes extenuate their reason for not having wealth in the first place: bad saving habits, caving into friends and family financial demands, etc. For instance, if someone won the lottery, they would most likely spend it on things that they could never have, meaning expensive items, and if not that, they spend it on others.

This doesn’t necessarily mean that the money is not well spent, it just means that riches are being depleted, but it also means that the money whether good or bad, is not being wisely spent on finding a way to make more of it.

It’s interesting how, no matter how many riches you can give someone, they will never be prosperous, just because of their outlook on money or the unwise choices that they choose to do with money. There is sometimes literally no way to help them with money. In fact, giving money can be the last thing you want to do, because it will make things worst.

There are many reasons people are rich, but there are only a few reasons for someone being prosperous. Just because you are rich does not mean you will always be so. Too often people want to be rich, yet don’t realize what it really entails. Being rich does not solve problems, because sometimes the reason people are not rich is the very reason they will not be so, even if they had riches.

There is nothing wrong with being rich, but at the end of the day, if you cannot handle what you have, you will not be able to handle what you don’t have.