By: Asma Shums, Mortgage Broker
If you have read this sentence anywhere and thought, “How is this possible? My expenses keep getting bigger and my income never grows – how am I richer than I think?” Count your blessings. We might not have all the money in the world but we certainly have a lot more valuable things that often the richest can’t put a price tag on.
Let’s take a look at these blessings.
We are born. Out of the millions of chances to not make it, all of us today beat the odds to come to life. We surpassed all the risks that our mothers took to bring us to the world. Once we did arrive, most of us were born to parents who love us unconditionally. We were born to relatives and cousins who have their utmost belief in our capabilities to change the world and be the best version of ourselves. We have our own cheerleaders in our family and friends.
We have intelligence. We learned to walk. We learned to talk. We learned to count and spell and write. We have access to education and this expands beyond a university degree. We have technology that can make us experts in the subjects that peak our curiosity. If we aren’t able to access computers, we have libraries with books holding infinite knowledge.
We have access to healthcare. We have our health. All of us have a battle we are fighting with our body at one point of the other, but we have also overcome a lot more diseases due to our amazing immune system that we tend to forget. If we do need to give our systems a boost, we have access to medicine. Humans have overcome famine, diseases, defects, predators, and other humans to bring you to this day.
We have our brains. We never have to worry about company because we have ourselves in our mind. We can choose to have this voice inside our head to be our number one supporter or critic. We have bodies that let us do mundane everyday tasks that many cannot do. We can see, hear, feel, touch, and smell everything great and bad in this world. We have our organs fighting for us every second. We are the deadliest and luckiest animals alive.
We have our faith. We have access to a superior being if we choose to rely on when we need to give our thanks or ask for help. We have a mental power to believe in things and hope for a better tomorrow. What other animal can do this?
We have access to become whoever we want, whenever we want, and the gift of time, resilience, and company to make it happen. This is not to say we do not come across hurdles in achieving our goals and making our dream a reality. But we are able to dream. Success is a lot of different things other than money. A goal can be astronomically important to saving lives, furthering humanity through technological innovation, to extremely necessary needs such as feeding people, taking care of our vulnerable members of society, achieving financial peace, or taking care of our next generation.
Let’s band together to count our blessings and remind ourselves that we are enough. With a positive attitude and gratitude, we can achieve our goals no matter what they are. Let’s be kind to ourselves and people around us and with those actions we will realize that we truly are richer than we think.
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Sunday, April 19, 2026
