Free Time Observation : The Realist Fact Of Life

May 28, 2019

Free Time Observation : The Realist Fact Of Life

During family dinner my uncle asked me to tell the family something “real.”

Without blinking I said: “The Average Man wants to be rich, the Rich Man wants to be king and the King wants to rule the world!”

THE REALIST FACT OF LIFE

I. The AVERAGE MAN … The RICH MAN … The KING

My uncle lives a nice, well-adjusted middle-class life.

He’s got a beautiful wife . . . beautiful kids . . . and a beautiful suburban home, with the beautiful picket fence—just for good measure.

Ahhh, but as I’m sure you’ve heard by now: Beauty is in the eye of the beholder!

Each night My Uncle returns home from work, before eating the dinner —prepared by his lovely, caring wife—he dashes to check a host of things. …

From checking his fantasy stock picks to the winning lottery numbers for the day, my uncle admittedly embraces the motto:

The Average Man wants to be Rich. ….

John D. Rockefeller is considered the richest man in history!

During Rockefeller’s lifetime, his assets alone equaled 1.5% of the nation’s entire economic output.

To adjust his holdings to today’s standard, that means if Rockefeller were living he’d be worth a staggering $340 billion.

Chew on this fun fact:

Rockefeller in his day was more than 2 times richer than Jeff Bezos—history’s first centi-billionaire, worth $140,000,000,000.

If by chance you’re counting at home, that means Rockefeller as 1 man = 300,000+ millionaires.

Think about it. …

Given that a picture is worth a thousand words, I’ll quickly paint a word-picture that’ll amount to a thousand words’ worth of illustration.

Huddle up these 300,000 millionaires in a sold out Michigan stadium—with each millionaire seated on the lap of another millionaire = Rockefeller’s net worth:

In short, Rockefeller had so much money that had he wrote a check the bank would’ve bounced!

But do you suppose that satisfied the Rich Man’s insatiable hunger for more?

According to Rockefeller’s biographer—John K. Winkler—by the time old money bags reached 53, “He looked like a mummy.”

Why?

“The only thing that lightened his mood was news of a good bargain. When he made a big profit, he would do a little war dance . . . But if he lost money, he fell ill!”

Dale Carnegie told a story of how Rockefeller—the real-life Scrooge—“once shipped $40,000 worth of grain by way of the Great Lakes. No insurance. It cost too much: $150.”

Of course, as Fate would have it, a brutal storm resulted in Rockefeller losing all his cargo. And needless to say, upon hearing the news—he crumbled to the floor . . . losing all his reason for living.

Ahhh, someone forgot to remind old Rockefeller:

The Rich Man wants to be King. …

Never has the King been more powerful than the mighty Napoléon Bonaparte.

At the peak of Napoléon’s power, he was so intimidating that he would’ve made John Gotti convert into Pope John Paul II.

Ahhh, but since the King dreams of ruling the world, the mighty Napoléon couldn’t help himself.

Ever in search of expansion, Napoléon set his sights on world conquest. And so, he set his sights on Russia.

Of course, at the famed Battle of Waterloo, the King met his end.

The King wants to rule the world. …

II. In CLOSING

On my way to the Café Coffee Day this morning, I spotted a homeless fella begging for change. …

In reality, though, the fella was begging for change of his mindset, not for the kind of change found in plain old nickels and cents.

After all, even if . . . say, I could’ve played the genie that transformed my homeless brother into royalty, would he have not still suffered the same sorrow?