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People Are Having The Wrong Concept Of What It Truly Means To Be Rich

Clarity is needed to achieve real richness — and how to get it

Benny Lim
Writers’ Blokke
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4 min readDec 19, 2024

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I remember when I was growing up in a family that was struggling financially, all I ever wanted was to be rich.

I wanted to be able to eat at the restaurants my friends ate at.

I wanted to buy the toys my friends had.

I wanted to wear the clothes my friends wore.

I wanted to play the video games my friends played.

I wanted to be rich because I wanted to buy all these things that would make me happy.

Or so I thought.

I have money but I didn’t feel rich

Fast forward a few decades and I find myself working a pretty decent job, earning a pretty decent salary, and being able to afford pretty decent stuff.

I was earning money that I could only have dreamt of as a kid.

I could buy the things I had always wanted to buy.

And I did.

But I didn’t feel rich or happy — for long at least.

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Benny Lim
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Written by Benny Lim

Medium writer since 2019, writing my way to a better life, and helping you lead a better life, one article at a time. https://iambennylim.medium.com/membership

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