Being Needy?

I read a quote to start my day.... "Do you really need to be envious?  'Envy is a waste of time.  You already have all you need.' Regina Brett, Cleveland Plain Dealer.  Are you too needy?"  It's an interesting idea to consider being envious and needy-ness.   I know it is easy to feel envy towards people who seem to have so much.  I went to a Easter gathering on the outside of Nashville with some friends to the lovely home of some new friends.  This was a gorgeous place!  I was immediately struck by how much I loved the layout and especially the backyard of the home.  I daydreamed of what it would be like to own and live in such a place.  But I think what I have going for me is that I also am learning more and more to be comfortable and accepting and THANKFUL of my own situation.  I really like where I live now.  It's a great setup for me.  The rent is affordable for me at this time and there is so much space to clean and play music.  It's also important to me that I just enjoy what I have because I don't know how long I'll be on this earth.  If I was so interested in getting that big house, I would be so busy with work that I would probably not be able to enjoy the fun things about my life.  Not working so much.  Spending a lot of time with friends.  Having a lot more time with the thing I love most.... MUSIC!

To be rich....

Saying today from my daily sayings desk reminder is.... "Are you rich?  'To know when you have enough is to be rich.' -Lao-Tze  That's rich!"  Money is always something that I have struggled to have a good relationship with.  When I was working full time in New York in management, I did pretty well.  I figured out a way to make enough money to pay my bills and still be able to put some money into my savings, as well.  At the same time, I learned that doing a job like this where I was spending most of my time working was not very fulfilling.  But I was rich.  I had a wonderful group of friends going on and I was really enjoying my social life in New York at the time.  I had wonderful people to use as my support network and lived in a wonderful city.  But I wasn't able to contribute as much time to my music as I wanted to.  Now I'm in a position to do that and need to remind myself to make sure I put in enough time.  It's easy to get busy doing a bunch of other things and forget about the reason I left my big-boy job in the first place.  I feel very rich in many ways, yes, but just because it's hard to have a comfortable life in the US without maintaining a certain level of income, it kind of makes it a necessary evil to have some cash flow happening regularly.