Resteemed, I want you to do better on steemit!

“The more hours you work doing that thing you don't want to do, the more virtuous you are.“ I feel like most cultures around the world promote being miserable whether or not you have everything that you need. “Handouts” are always looked down upon, we need to EARN it through hard work and suffer...it’s always reminded me of a fraternity.

I remember having one being in time over taking a shit so many times, it really drove me crazy. Like what am I working so hard for if I don’t even get to have control over my bodily functions!

I can understand completely. We are made to feel guilty about receiving money and yet we are expected to have it. We are taught that poor people make their own poverty when really we have collectively created a system that encourages poverty. All this guilt was was only compounded for me when I realized how money is only as real as we make it and how we give it all that power and that power actually belongs to PEOPLE. It’s a substitute for trust, and a forced one at that. I had a certain level of disguist for the stuff for a long time.

Learning to remove myself from the concepts of good and bad and seeing my experience as the universe speaking with me has helped tremendously. I no longer see money as evil. It’s just a manifestation of energy that is not flowing naturally. You don’t fix something by avoiding it. You don’t fight it. You rise above it. I now know that I should not be rejecting it because our energy has been sucked up by it, and if I want to help free other people from lives that they don’t want to be living, I need to allow that energy to flow towards me so that I can allow the energy to flow.

When I expressed some frustration with money and how I could see right through it, one wise steemian told me “money isn't real, so If you know that, it should be really easy to get”. I now see myself as a vehicle for energy to be redistributed, some of that will certainly take the form of money cause that’s where we’ve put so much of it. There’s no guilt about being “rich” as long as I am able to help that energy flow to others.