We put things we value into the strongest of vaults, locked behind keys and combinations and inches of steel. Which makes them very hard to steal, and very hard to get to at all.
When has your urge for safety kept you from something you could have enjoyed?
The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it. ―Henry David Thoreau
What are you glad to invest your life in?
It is not, of course, true that “clothes make the man.” But clothes and other status markers do, all too often, create a variety of assumptions about people of all genders, and many of those assumptions have little to do with reality.
When have you assumed wrongly about someone based on what they were wearing? When has someone made a wrong assumption about you based on just what they saw?
“There is a gigantic difference between earning a great deal of money and being rich.” ―Marlene Dietrich
What aspect of your life that doesn’t involve money makes you feel rich?
Roulette is a game of chance, an utterly random opportunity to win—or lose—some money. You might feel that playing roulette is foolish, but it’s worth noting that most people’s wealth—or lack thereof—can be traced to equally random bits of fate.
What financial advantages or disadvantages have come to you through means over which you had no control?
