How poor have you been, I am poor, but spiritually rich...?

Question

Varying degrees of poverty, how poor are you...?

I feel los's retort overly dramatic, and excessively narcisstic which he will in all probablity agree with in reverse...

Its heartening to read of the adverse financial climes of others, it encouages hope and endeavout in all who read it..sometimes overly introspective, never pathetic..!

Answer 1

ive been thrown out with only my clothe's homeless and skint

takes time but it all sorts itself out , not sure im spiritual at all but i am a firm believer in what someone else asked a while ago on here ......"what goes around comes around"...ive always been a preety decent guy and always know that from that something always turns up

and it invariably does ................thank god ...(and i dont mean that ine spiritual sense lol)


but hey , for all out there at this time of year which i know is hard for some ...............keep ur chin up ......always sumat beter round the corner

fab xmas everyone xxxx

Answer 2

I was once down to nothing but a little margarine and bread. The rent was paid but no money for food. I was thinking of stealing some oranges, but didn't. Instead I walked into a funky restaurant 'The Blue Hawaii' and got a job. The first thing Ivan, the Iranian manager did was feed me. It was a wacky place to work, I have very fond memories of the place.
I've been broke before, but you know what? I live in the USA and we're all relatively rich. The above was the closest I ever came to going hungry. I've never missed a meal except by choice. That's pretty amazing.

Answer 3

As a youth pretty poor but after traveling the world and being in numerous "Third World" countries the poorest in this country are at worst middle class in most others and in the huge majority the wealthiest 10% or better. Being behind on payments is not poor-living on the street with absosutely nothing, watching friends strave to death and never having a chance to do or get any better is poor. I was raised very much below poverty level but did not got hungry-might not have had enough or a variety and might not have been full but I was never really hungry. I think the poorest aren't judged by what they don't have but the poorest people are those without hope for them or their children to ever get any better in life.

Answer 4

I was very poor after the divorce. I was 4 months behind on my rent, 4 months behind on my car payment, I couldn't get state assistance because the measly child support I got should've paid to live in the "projects" (I refused to raise my children in the projects.), there was a hiring freeze in my area and it seemed as though NO ONE had any job openings. I am diabetic, and I would drink juice to keep my blood sugars up but I would feed my 2 tiny children what food we had. I enrolled in classes at the college and finally found a job. Now, 11 years later, I am a paramedic, I am a nurse, I own 2 homes, I have a fiance, and I have 2 healthy teenagers. Thank God.

Answer 5

In a scale from 1(very poor) to 10(very rich), I'm 5 or 4... live in an ordinary 3bedroom apartment.

Answer 6

From a Western world point of view, my family and I have been about as low as (ex) white lower middle class people can go.

From a Spiritual point of view, we now have people entrust their problems with us and ask our advice on matters of this nature, even though the askers are vastly more "wealthy". A friend in need, is a friend in DEED.

Poverty is in ones mind. Within the mind of people lay the best and worst; it is our choices that make what we are, and what happens today and tomorrow.

Answer 7

Years ago when my children were toddlers, we were so poor, no phone or car, the only food in the house was flour and shortening, so I heated up the oil, mixed the flour with water, rolled it out, cut out squares, deep fried them, sprinkled them with salt, and we ate the crackers...after two days of eating them my brother (I had not seen him in a couple months) just happened to stop over, he took us to the store and bought us groceries.
I felt like a guardian angel had been watching over us and helped us at such a desperate time.

Answer 8

It depends how you define poor ,what are you measuring it against ?when we,re born we born with nothing when we die we take nothing ,if you got your health you got everything family a home and money are bonuses,ive been without a home .family and money .but got by .im now happily married with a lovely family we live in a housing association flat i can no longer work as im disabled my husband and children are all lucky enough to have work ,life is what you make it enjoy it we,re not here long ,volunteer and help people less fortunate merry xmas

Answer 9

Try living in a old run down house but didn't mind because of your family is there with you. I don't think money should define how rich you are. The best things in life can not be bought.

Answer 10

I am poor.

Having a loving family and a happy household makes me feel rich. Lifes little luxuries would just be the cherry on top.