It's not about having a lot of stuff or having a lot of money to be rich. It all comes down to how you live your life, or really the way you treat others around you, just being rich doesn't always mean money, it can more as well mean the desire you have to be rich in your heart and soul. I will admit I didn't always have the desire to be rich in my heart. you see. let me take you back to my time in high school. I came from a middle class childhood all the way up until highschool, and I was a bully I didn't understand, that in order to earn respect, that you needed to give it, I only thought that being rich was the money you have in your pocket, or the clothes you wore. I didn't know that being rich really only meant basically how you treat others. so I treated people badly for my own self pity. I didn't realize my actions had a way of coming back to me, until I turned 18 and left my foster home. it was only then when I realized, my actions really did come back to me. I found myself on drugs and being homeless, doing anything that I could to survive. so one late night I started going over my high school list of the people I treated poorly, and I started apologizing because that wasn't who I wanted to be. I straightened my life up since then. now people that I didn't suspect me being friends with, I am till this day, and I help them anyone I can. so I guess what I'm trying to say is that being "rich" doesn't always mean money. it's the kindness in your heart that has effect on others, not the way you dress, but the way you act and have an impact on people's life's, Because you never know what anyone is going through behind close doors. Always treat people the way you want to be treated in return. your actions always have a way of coming back to you, they did me, now because of that I can say I'm a better person and I know what I want out of life. life doesn't owe me anything. I just want the best life possible.

© Julieanne smith