Emotional Money
I was never taught about money directly growing up. But I observed how money felt.
Money was not something comfortably talked about in my family.
It was something we whispered.
After purchasing things I needed, I'd be ashamed to share the amounts with my parents. Because of how surprised they reacted at how things cost.
And then, when visiting other family and friend's houses, money was used differently. As a means to experience. Short adventures. Outings.
Was I only seeing one side of the full picture?
But it helped me. I saw possibilities of what's out there. Mostly from the emotional side of it.
One came from a place of fear. Hoarding it felt like the right thing to do to prevent it being stolen.
The other felt like it unlocked freedom. Money was in constant flow. Circulating. As it would come back in other ways like gifts, business income and warmth in relationships.
Neither is the full picture. Both shaped my views of it.
One shows caution, the other the joy in the potential.
I think it's best to have it flow from one extreme to the other. To circulate money without fear and as a tool for life's adventures.
And as I'm older, I realize money is just numbers and value of service.