I am catching up with posting online my articles.
But unfortunately 3 days later my car broke down. I had the problem to start the engine but with the help of another person I succeeded but then there was a white smoke coming out of the exhaust pipe. I suspected that this was related to the repair that was done 3 days ago but then I am not a car mechanic. Anyway I called my insurance company and I got my car towed to my mechanic. I did not have luck because my mechanic was on the sick leave and his colleague was busy with other cars and I was told that I need to wait 1 day.
Now... today is a 4th day I was told that my car can only be fixed by next Tuesday ( 8 days altogether ) and we will see if I am lucky with that. And then I was also told that the repair will cost significant amount of money. To give you some idea I say that it will cost me almost half of the minimum monthly income. Within this there was some failure and mistake of my mechanic who was repairing my car about 3 days ago because I have informed him that there was something not right with the heating system. But he ignored it and he did not checked it up. But I will be able to clear it out only when he gets back from his sick leave. In the meantime I will have to pay for the repair because I need a car because I need it for my work.
So... I say it again. I am fortunate that I have money to repair my car. I am not stressed at all and this will not affect my financial stability right now. But look at this situation closely. Few days ago I was cool and I felt that I am sort of wealthy. My basic survival needs were met and I did not have to worry and could spend some money on buying new clothes or other things which are already out of the group of basic survival needs. But this whole situation could very easy and very quickly change 180 degrees. What about if my car would get broken beyond repair ? I could buy myself another second hand car but then I would have to use my savings and I would not be able to buy other things from the non-survival group. So then I could not call myself wealthy anymore... or would I ?
Thus this is showing us that this thing with feeling wealthy is a very fragile thing. In the current system this can change literally from day to day.
And we are aware of this point. So what we do is that we continue to work and accumulate more and more money ( quite often over reasonable limits ) to prevent a situation when our perception or I should rather illusion of feeling wealthy is not being threatened.
To be continued