Comments on: Financial Confessional: “I Turned My Back on My Wealthy Parents to Live a Life of My Own.”

By: J. Money

J. Money — Mon, 06 Feb 2017 22:00:34 +0000

In reply to Ten Factorial Rocks. Amen to that.

By: Ten Factorial Rocks

Ten Factorial Rocks — Fri, 03 Feb 2017 16:01:20 +0000

What a story Jeremy, and thanks J$ for bringing this out. Your story reminds me of a Buddhist saying (which is often mis-quoted) that “Love of money is the root cause of all suffering”. It is often wrongly quoted as “Money is the root cause of all suffering”. If you love money more than the people who love you, then it ain’t a grand life. It’s amazing you grew up in such impressive wealth but yet managed to develop such healthy attitudes on life.

By: J. Money

J. Money — Wed, 01 Feb 2017 14:40:32 +0000

In reply to theFIREstarter. You think so? I feel like it's getting worse with how advertising has ballooned over the decades :( I think we're just so obsessed with personal finance online that our own worlds are full of more conscious people, haha...

By: theFIREstarter

theFIREstarter — Wed, 01 Feb 2017 08:22:08 +0000

This is something most of us can relate to I think! I think there was much more social pressure on his generation to aquire wealth and status symbols though. As time goes on I think possessions are becoming less of a *thing* as people are realising this is not the key to happiness, and the internet is helping to spread that word quicker than ever

By: J. Money

J. Money — Sun, 29 Jan 2017 20:08:00 +0000

In reply to Physician on FIRE.

Not sure if it being “uncommon” is a reason to not disown, haha (tons of people do stupid $hit in this world and we don’t copy them!), but true that a lot is left out of this post… It was literally just an email meant for me and not a “life story” type deal, but unfortunately because of it we don’t get the full picture :(

By: J. Money

J. Money — Sun, 29 Jan 2017 20:06:08 +0000

In reply to Miss Mazuma. Dang, that sucks having that perspective as kids :( I'm sure I did too growing up anytime I couldn't get a pair of Nike Air Jordans or whatever my friends were rockin'. If only we could get it through our skulls earlier in life :)

By: J. Money

J. Money — Sun, 29 Jan 2017 20:04:30 +0000

In reply to Mr. Zero.

That’s what our nurse said to me with our first baby!! Well, at least the “just love him – that’s all you need to do” part when I asked how the heck we were supposed to raise him without any sort of manual, haha… But anytime I struggle now either with him or his younger 2 year old brother, i just hear those words in my head and go straight back to loving again :)

By: J. Money

J. Money — Sun, 29 Jan 2017 20:02:57 +0000

In reply to Kraken Fireball. I'll try to keep finding more!

By: J. Money

J. Money — Sun, 29 Jan 2017 20:01:46 +0000

In reply to Nita. Agreed!! That sounds like an incredible lifestyle! :)

By: J. Money

J. Money — Sun, 29 Jan 2017 19:56:30 +0000

In reply to Finding the Ceiling. YAY!!!! A happy ending!!! This is largely why I turn down a lot of travel/speaking/conference gig stuff.. I'm so afraid of becoming "that" dad!