Assess Your Affluence/Penury With This Tool
By: Saurabh Jayesh Das
Tags: Morality, Money Management, Life Lessons, Humanity, Health

Life is hard and it is even harder for some people out there and so I told you to drop those parameters above as it is not money but something else that makes your wealth in this life. We see cars and we get fascinated, we see furnished bungalows and we get spellbind but what about the thoughts of the person who owns them? The person who owns that grey Volkswagen Golf is probably looking at someone’s yellow Mustang! The person living in the bungalow dreams of palaces all night! So you see, humans are the most unsated species and insatiate.

So now we must shift the path of assessment from others to ourselves. Rather than counting on what we don’t have and what is needed, let us just for some moment try to count what we have that others don’t?

Remember the 6 miscellaneous “Have you ever…” questions I asked you above? Let me answer their context:

Q1) felt excited about the dinner you will have today right after waking up in the morning?

- If yes, then you have the wealth of having your favorite food anytime without any difficulties

Q2) written homework all day as it was submission time the other day?

- If yes, then you are blessed enough to have someone that pays your fees and makes you learn to be a responsible person in the near future

Q3) worn your favorite clothes for an occasion?

- If yes, then you have the fortune of having pretty clothes to wear and also pretty people who invite you on their special day

Q4) traveled on the window seat listening to your soothing playlist?

- If yes, then you have the wealth of freedom to travel and move around and of course the boon of having ears to listen

Q4) got scolded for breaking something valuable in the drawing-room?

- If yes, then you have a place to live within and someone too caring to make sure you make no mistakes as you step out of the house

Q5) felt happy after watching your favorite movie countless times?

- If yes, then you have the wealth of spending your time at your own will and also the gift of having eyes

Q6) sort out misunderstandings with friends?

- If yes, then you have friends to laugh and cry with

We don’t easily get how lucky and fortunate we are until we see someone unlucky enough and that’s a problem. Until someone less fortunate crosses our mind, only then do we see ourselves fortunate, but apart from that all the time we keep multi-millionaires in our minds and keep cursing our fortune of not having enough every day. The problem again lies with our perception of wealth. “Count your blessings” is what should be your base of assessing wealth always.

There are people who have never lived within houses, bought their favorite dress, and never came back after going out of their houses!! There are numerous examples (I don’t even have to give one example of them as you might be flashing their painstaking efforts after reading this) of physically challenged humans who overcame their disability and made themselves worth with all the other abilities they got. What do you think made them do that? It’s “LOSS!” Loss of THE LITTLE FINGER made a person realize how good grip he had earlier with his hand and now that he must thank GOD for keeping his other fingers safe though. Loss of SIGHT made a person realize how dull everything around is and that he can bring colors only using a sharp hearing ability. Loss of WATER made a farmer realize that it is now time to focus on secondary occupation as rains are very hard to predict. The loss of HEALTH made a person realize that sleep was much important than money!

Why wait for LOSS to make you count on your blessings? Why not think of what you got right now and take that as your most precious asset?

Still not convinced of my wealth-assessment-tool?

Here’s a points chart that will help you count how much wealth you have:

Starting with 0, as you go through each row of this table, make sure you keep a tally of your points. You will need that for grading yourself afterward:

The points table of your worth

Let us tally now:

If you have points over ∞ then voila congratulations! You are wealthy enough to buy anything out there!!

I know some of you might be still not believing me, but think of people who are not with us today and left the world before dawn. Life is hard but, But life is precious and awesome!!

As you have now had your points more than an ∞ make sure that you know its worth. Having “LIFE” is your biggest asset in this wealth-o-meter (finally found a name for it!). There are people surely who crave money and success but there are others too who wish to get some food, some friends, good health, roof to sleep under, family to love, and life to live. Your perspective of wealth will change only when you will understand that while you want something that the other person has, already somewhere someone wants what all you have! For them, it is you who is rich, prosperous, and wealthy. Always embrace what you have!