As I sat on the couch this morning flipping through the useless channels on the tv, I stopped on Mtv cribs. Sad, yes I know. It was one of the guys from good charlotte and he had a huge fucking house (like they all do). As I was watching him talk about is three cars (which he probably rarely drives...and who cares about how big your tires are [wait, excuse me, your rims, whatever]) and how they are all custom made and blah blah blah, I thought 'would money change me'?
Sadly, I think it would. I can say now that if I had a ton of money I would pay off car loans, student loans, buy a nice house, that kind of stuff. But if I were a rich snob from a band or an actor, I wouldn't have to worry about those kinds of things. Maybe I could be like Bono and find a cause to throw money at. That would make me at least feel a little bit better about myself. Or I could buy a sports franchise. I can sit here today and yell and rant and rave about how I would try to be giving and modest, but that is not who we are as people. That is why Capitalism won over Communism. We aren't about caring and giving on a huge scale.
You don't see celebrities living a normal life in a three or four bedroom ranch house. They buy (or build) houses with pools, movie theatres, and living rooms they never use. You know, the 'formal sitting room' where all the nice leather couches and chairs are with the grand piano in the corner that they never use. And those are the houses they use most of the year. They don't talk about their houses in other states or their summer homes. Watching shows like that iritate me for the reason that they don't really know how to live. They just go spend money and sit in empty houses and think that they are living a good life.
In actuallity, they are just dying inside wishing their houses weren't so big and empty...or not.
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