More money comes with great responsibility!!

I am now extremely broke and my spending level is just not sustainable with very few money left for acceptable dining. I was wondering why I was so broke and what is wrong with me. When I was in Singapore with $200 pocket money every week. I have the money to eat good food every week yet I have all the money for tithes and even building fund for the church. I feel that having that much money is enough to sustain me for the whole month.

Sometimes, I am extremely amazed of me spending control when I was in secondary school. Now, I got far more money than that and yet I feel poor. There are just too much to spend and yet it never feels enough. The 1st important thing that I learned today is more money comes with greater responsibility. If you have more money, It doesn't actually mean that you are richer. I befriended a man on a street complaining about the money given by the government for the homeless people. I asked him how much each of the got and he told me they got $600 each. Wow!! thats a lot of money for the average Indonesian but it is simply not enough for the homeless people to live in Australia.

I was lucky enough to have an increase in allowances at the end of this year. If people ever ask me how much it improved my life. I could say to them that it is the same as ever before. As I said earlier, this general rule seems to apply to everyone. It could be God's plan to flatten the income distribution or our own negligence with money, I am not sure which one is right. Most probably the second one is right. The rule is that more money comes with greater responsibility. With more money, more reasons to spend money naturally and MAGICALLY comes to you and there are much more temptations. It is your ability to resist the temptations and power to say 'NO' that makes the big difference. With more money, people have the tendency to spend more freely without much thoughts.

For example, you have heard stories of people winning millions from lottery and ended up more broke as every before. They even said that winning the lottery is the worst thing that could happen to them. Perhaps the best way to control lottery winnings is to try keeping it unknown and keep a normal yet sustainable life. This could be the exact reason why I am so broke. This is a hearthbreaking lesson that I learned so far not to take my money for granted and wish that you, my friends, do not make the same mistake as me again..