What would you do with your extra dollars?

Extra dollars.

I have been digging up about investments lately. So, my next few articles are going to be around the subject of investing. I wonder why we were never taught about this in School. Big mistake for the students of future generation. I have no doubt majority of our society would become employees in 8-4 jobs. But still, investment is a simple life skill which anyone can learn in few days. Which has potential to change your as well as everyone else's life in years to come. But this article I dedicate for the rich. What would you do with your extra dollars if you are rich?

I want you to continue reading if you are rich. If you are poor still, I would want you to read the article as one day there is a chance you would be rich. I am not sure, maybe you will step onto an Emerald or something. Life has an amazing way of turning up good into bad and bad into good.

Rich

Adopting a child? how about 100?

The real reason for this article is a little story I read few years back. I do not know the characters of this story. But I can still remember this white young woman, smiling behind a group of children. About 100 of them. They all were smiling for the camera, and they all looked happy. It was a story, where this remarkable woman, had adopted all those children, and given them a life. The article described the biography of this young women, who was seeking a purpose in life, one day thought "I should adopt a child" and one after the other, she couldn't help herself adopting so many. I am sure there was more to the story, that she had plenty of help from some other people. Yet she had dedicated her life for these children, making their lives better. I do not even remember she is a wealthy woman or not. But what does it matter, if human consciousness holds the values, she had saved a hundred of them, so it must be the most valuable thing. And that is the reason I remember it all these years. It is difficult and marginally selfish to adopt a one child. Adopting a 100 would be selfless.

This is life - Sir Nicholas Winton.

This is life

This is not the first time I have heard such a remarkable story of saving humans. Have you heard about Sir Nicholas Winton? It is a story about a Stockbroker and a humanitarian pre World War ii Who have saved few hundred children. And more fascinating thing is he had kept it to himself. After so many years, the children whom he had saved got together in a TV program called this is life in 1988, and appeared behind his back, and thanked him for what he has done. There is still a YouTube Video out there if you would like to watch the moment. But the important lesson for us is, it is hard. It is hard to be generous, selfless and helpful when all the forces of universe try to pull it in the opposite direction. Especially when poor, as we like to play the victim, and especially when rich, when we are blinded by the ego. Hence, let's proliferate stories like these for us to remember not to lose our sanity in search of Gold in life.

So, what would you do with your extra dollars?