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Got a mail today; was about the Blog Action Day whereby a day is chosen and bloggers across the world publish posts about a particular topic. And for this year, it’s poverty.

For more info about this Blog Action Day, check it out @ BlogActionDay.org

Anyway, while waiting for that day (15th of October 2008), i started thinking a bit about my own perception of poverty. The first thing that comes to my mind: Poverty== No Money

And I am pretty sure, many among you thinks alike. That is, if you have loads of money, you are rich! On the contrary, having no or little money, implies poverty. But this simple logic leads us to the very debatable issue about “money is everything”, which personally I disagree. But if i disagree with this, then how come I think that poverty is an outcome resulting from the lack of money? Most probably i am proving myself wrong!

I feel that we should try look at poverty in a different way. Educate the new generations about the real richness and poverty of this world. Having no money does not mean you are poor and samewise , loads of it does not make you a rich man.

Rich are those who can understand others, are able to help others and who know the secrets of living a happy life. The poorest are the selfish ones from among us and the illiterates. By illiterates, by no means do i refer to those having no education but rather those people who are educated but do not know how to make good use of it. There are people out there who never have been on a school bench, but yet, these same people are far better human beings than some degree holders. And we dare refer to them as poor? They may be wearing no clothing and we think this is because they are poor…but perhaps, perhaps this is because their hearts are pure, they have nothing to hide unlike us, who wear suits to hide our selfishness.

So are you rich or poor?

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