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The Smell of Wealth and the Perfume of Poverty

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Growing up, there were certain lessons you heard from elders that sounded ordinary at the time. You nodded, moved on, and thought little of them. Then life happened. You left home, met different people, experienced different environments, and suddenly those simple statements began to make sense. One lesson that has stayed with me over the years is this: "𝑻𝒉𝒆 π’—π’Šπ’π’π’‚π’ˆπ’† 𝒕𝒆𝒂𝒄𝒉𝒆𝒔 π’šπ’π’– 𝒕𝒐 π’π’˜π’. 𝑻𝒉𝒆 π’„π’Šπ’•π’š 𝒕𝒆𝒂𝒄𝒉𝒆𝒔 π’šπ’π’– 𝒕𝒐 π’π’˜π’†. 𝑩𝒐𝒕𝒉 𝒍𝒆𝒔𝒔𝒐𝒏𝒔 𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒇𝒓𝒆𝒆. π‘Άπ’π’π’š 𝒐𝒏𝒆 𝒄𝒐𝒔𝒕𝒔 π’†π’—π’†π’“π’šπ’•π’‰π’Šπ’π’ˆ." Another one that keeps coming back to me is: "𝑼𝒓𝒃𝒂𝒏 π’‘π’π’—π’†π’“π’•π’š π’˜π’†π’‚π’“π’” 𝒅𝒆𝒐𝒅𝒐𝒓𝒂𝒏𝒕. 𝑹𝒖𝒓𝒂𝒍 π’˜π’†π’‚π’π’•π’‰ π’”π’Žπ’†π’π’π’” π’π’Šπ’Œπ’† π’„π’π’˜π’”. π‘­π’–π’π’π’š π’‰π’π’˜ 𝒏𝒐𝒔𝒆𝒔 π’Œπ’†π’†π’‘ π’„π’π’π’‡π’–π’”π’Šπ’π’ˆ 𝒕𝒉𝒆 π’•π’˜π’." The older I get, the more I understand the wisdom hidden in those words. As children, many of us grew up in communities where ownership was not something people talked about, it wa...
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