I didn’t grow up with a lot of money. (Ok wow that is the understatement of life.) I grew up with NO money. A household full of children, and growing up in constant transition made poverty a constant companion for the majority of my life. I thought it quite an oddity when I would go to a few friends’ house and they would have luxuries like, a few boxes of cereal, beds for everyone to sleep in, and multiple sets of blankets. Poverty helped shape me in a way that produced fear of not having enough. As the years have gone by, I have noticed that it takes a lot more than making more money to reduce that fear of scarcity. Anxiety around money and possessions runs very deep inside of me.
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