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KEELEY’S MAY 31-DAY CHALLENGE
We Can All Be Rich
It’s not all about the money.
Day Twenty-three prompt: In five years, where do you see yourself?
In five years, I plan to be rich. How I accomplish this remains to be seen. Half of me believes I’ll win the lottery; the other half thinks I’ll recognize abundance comes from within. Those who don’t need it say money can’t buy everything, but it helps. I don’t have enough money to retire, although it’s my goal. It’s not that I don’t enjoy my job, but the idea of reading, writing, visiting the grandkids, and sleeping in whenever I want amuses me. In five years, I’ll be rich. Do you believe me?
Looking at my granddaughter’s picture in my virtual frame, I see her big smile as she celebrates a school dinner with her parents. My son-in-law, daughter, and granddaughter look so happy. Addy has her whole life ahead of her. Nothing is stopping her now. But where will she be in five years, or ten, maybe later?
A couple of weeks ago, I was scheduled for an MRI. Trusting I had enough anxiety medication to get me through, I left everything to the last minute before finding out my meds were five years old. How was it that I hadn’t needed to renew the prescription in so long? If asked back then where I saw myself in five years, would I have guessed needing…
