Question of Fortune

Liam Lalor
Nov 4 · 2 min read
Source: Paweł Czerwiński, Unsplash

I find fortune uninteresting. Money, treasure, material domination. Most seem obsessed with these things in some way. They build their worlds around the interest. They imagine they need these things to be truly and finally happy. They grieve for what they don’t have, wishing all the while for the arrival of supreme luxury. The result is a person that appears hollow or contrived, and is often that. Everywhere there are these people diminishing themselves…

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