The First Thing Money Can't Explain

Some time ago, when I was with my mom, she once said something offhand while we were in her room discussing some random things, but I did not put my mind fully on one of the things she said that she wants her kid's trading store to become more bigger than it already is. Now I understand where she was driving to. She said it the way someone mentions a fact about someone's life, distant, already settled.

So, tomorrow comes, and money stops being my problem. My first move will be far from taking a tour around the world, though I will definitely do that later. And I won't start building a luxurious house either, though I have the full knowledge of why people go after that too.

What I'd do first first is grant the wish of my mother, by sitting her down and asking for her real plans towards her shop, where she really needs to expand too, and the type of goods she'd like to get. Then I'd take up the cross on myself and build, I will do it as a gift because she really deserves more in all circumstances or any way I can think of.

And talking about myself, without calculating anything in return, I think I'd allow curiosity to lead. Then I'll learn something new and genuine that necessarily doesn't relate to my career. I will learn it because I want to with zero requirements that it will lead to anything useful.

Money does not directly steal comfort if you ask me. It's permission, the quiet right to want something without immediately justifying why.
And without explanation that is the part I'd buy back first, for both of us.

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