One of my friends posted a blog the other day.  Here is his blog entry.

Please read that before you move on…..

After reading that I had to make a reply, and I thought that it was important for everyone to read it so I posted it here also.

Anyway it is so true.    I lived in the Philippines for a year and a half and I was very much in the elite, I was able to get the best service and best of everything when I was there and I lived on less than $2000 a month.

Most of the people we know there made less than $100 per month for their entire family.   We have chosen to give to pay for 4 kids to have a full ride at one of the nicest private high schools, with tuition, transportation, food and extras we send them a total of $150 a month, and that covers all of it with some left over.

If I was a millionaire I would have a very hard time buying this really expensive things, knowing that for the price of this Rolex I could send 10 kids to school for a full 12 years and dramatically change their life, after thinking about that there is no way I could buy the watch, the $80 watch I have now works great, looks great and is enough for me.

While I was there I was at a church and they had a video, it basically showed some stats, that if you slept in a bed, had a shower in your house and kept your food in a refrigerator you were better off than 85% of the world population.  If you had a computer in your house, now you were in the top 9% and if you had a car that put you in the top 5%.   I am sure that almost everyone that reads this falls in that top 5% and most of you also feel poor, and depressed about it, so feel blessed for what you have and move forward in life.