I DON'T LIKE MOTIVATIONALS
They are often as tasteless as cliches.
That one size fits all presumptuousness.
I don't read motivational books.
Life doesn't lend itself to generic prescriptions.
But sometimes I look into my life and bring up something.
Something I think worked a little magic with me.
You can defeat money and its seductiveness that breeds eternal competition.
Money is vulnerable
You defeat money by giving out more than you accumulate or store.
Imagine a young man Mamadi who makes 30 million and uses it to build a motherless babies home.
He tells no one he did it. He quietly hands it over to an existing charity. He has no house. He has built no house of his own. Mamadi lives in a rented apartment.
Months after a friend invites him for housewarming. Friends gather. His friend is being congratulated. Other friends are praising his friend and mocking all others who havent built a house. Beneath the congratulations is envy. The air is filled with unspoken rivalry.
That's the Salone way.
But Mamadi is happy through and through.
Why?
He has taken himself out of the competition.
Mamadi smiles even when the friend that has been the happiest pulls him outside to ask " how this guy take make all this money sef?"
Another friend buys an SUV. And finds a new swagger. Then he begins to call Mamadi often to inquire about Mamadi welfare and to discuss the problems of owning a big car in Freetown which includes being chased around by girls. When he calls sometime other times he uses Mamadi who drives a lowly Corolla as a guinea to talk about how to make it in Freetown.
Mamadi listens and laughs.
Uncle Mamadi wont envy his friends because he has murdered and buried money.
*Whatever you can give away anonymously, you cant crave*.
Giving away your old clothes to charity is good.
But you can only free yourself, your heart from the pull of money when you give away more than you keep for yourself.
Bill Gates and co helped themselves by turning over their billions to charity.
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