Inheritance From Dickson Idlier

After you got something, instead of enjoying it, you desire better ones. Is an addiction mentality or a bottomless pit of desire and greed. It can never be satisfied. What you can do is enjoy it when you can and with what you already have. This reduces stress and you don’t need to earn more money for this. —— Dickson Idlier

People you love may be the ones hating you the most. Don't because of the minority makes you give up on the majority who still loves you back unless everyone hates you. Then you are the problem.  —— Dickson Idlier

Too bad I don't have a license and there is no such van here. Image from : https://unsplash.com/photos/xr-y6Ruw7K8?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditShareLink Live below your means doesn't mean comprising your living standard but having a sustainable lifestyle with what you have. Is a simple way of life people desire.  —— Dickson Idlier Live below your means is spending less money than you earn (budget management) but to me, it is living with bare essentials. Similar to minimalism  minus declutter your stuff to the minimum. Another aspect is be as debt-free as possible.  Will I be like a cheapskate person if I live below my means? Yes in a certain sense but you are smiling with a fat bank account while others slogging their lives over money. Different people perceive differently what are bare essentials. Below is an idea of living with my bare essentials: Food . We need to eat to live. Try to buy fresh ingredients and cook mo...

Desire for a better life gets us more entrapped in the web of desires to overspend. Only by cutting away these threads of desires can we free ourselves and live a less stressful and more rewarding life by spending below our means.  ——  Dickson Idlier There are two ways to live life: 1. Live in a way that we spend less than we make. 2. Live in a way that spends more than we make. Spending exactly as you make does not happen as emergencies happen all the time, so is still in the second group. People would rationally choose spending less than we make but most don't.  In our civilized society, we are constantly bombarded with advertisements promising a better life than you have... if and only if, you are willing to spend to get it. This is so ingrained in our subconscious, from the moment we become sensible, we subtly and unintentionally fall into this trap. Increased income doesn't quench our desires. Offers for better life grow with our income... nicer cars, bigger houses, ...

Translated as: What is happiness? Poor people said: Being rich is happiness The disabled said: Being able to walk is happiness Blind people say: To see is happiness Beggar said: Having food is happiness The patient said: Being alive is happiness For different people, happiness is usually to obtain what they don't have. The happiness we want can be very simple and straightforward. However, when you have it, you don’t cherish it but wanting something better or more. Greed clouds your sight from happiness. Thus, happiness is simply to cherish what you have, not keep chasing something better. —— Dickson Idlier

对不同人来说，幸福都是不一样的。但是，要的幸福却是很直接，很简单。不过，往往要追求的幸福是得不到的，才珍贵。可是当你拥有后，却不珍惜。要更好或更多。到头来全是一场空。所以，幸福是要珍惜你所拥有的。而不是傻傻的追求的得不到的。 —— 闲人·迪克森