We live in a world where those who have acquired wealth are seen as the most powerful people. When people notice you are rich there is this special attention offered to you irrespective of your personality or background, and this happens very.
People have followed the reverse pattern of the bible by seeking first riches and everything other thing(power) shall be added to you, instead of seeking the kingdom first(as stated in the Bible).
We have also heard that money can change a man entirely, both his inward and outwardly appearance, but the wise ones who are mostly motivational speakers has come to say no,money does not change a person but rather it brings out the real character that was hidden in the person when he was not yet rich. I think both are correct it all depends on the angle of life you are looking at it from.
It is rarely hard to see someone who gets rich and does not change, I do not say they don't exist but it is rare,there are 1 in every hundred. It also applies in friendships, when a friend gets rich he tends to change , sometimes not completely but the changes are also noticeable. People always feel that when they get rich, their friends has to change to suit their new lifestyle, this idea and thinking has ruined some long and valuable friendships.
My story
Most of the times I have been around friends who we were always doing things and sharing good moments together, and suddenly when there breakthrough of small success came they tend to vanish without me seeing them coming close again, that has always been a trend in success and friendship industry.
But there was this close friend of mine who appeared to different, he was doing well but we were still close.
My friend was a quiet and humble person just like me also. We did things together, and we never thought about our wealth status although we talked more of how we will would like to be wealthy. my friend shared everything with me, but there was this secret which I only got to discover by myself later on.
This my friend was into programming which he always told me that he was still learning, even when I told him if he can teach me he still insist he hasn't understand anything yet, so I stopped bothering him and we never discussed anything about it again, we were just going with our friendship the normal way.
But one day something shocking happened we were together chatting and talking about how the economy wasn't fair to us and there was no enough provision of work for youths like us. While we were talking I was with his phone and I was scrolling through it and I then decided to go into his message to playfully check out the love messages he has been send to other girls that he has been chasing in the hood, the first message I saw in his inbox was a bank alert, and I decided to intrude into his privacy and clicked further, lo and behold it was an account balance of millions lying inside it.
With the shock I shouted and he immediately realized that it was because of the bank alert that he mistakenly forgot to delete as usual before he came to visit me. I was just shocked and said playfully that I was disappointed in him. When I asked him how he got the money, he later told me that it was from his programming skills which he always told me he was still learning. He told me when the he started making money from it so that I would not be angry with him for not teaching me when I asked.
I never took it serious but see it as normal thing, maybe he didn't have the time to teach me as well because he wanted to focus and master it well and that paid him. But my friend from that day just started avoiding me because of his guilty conscience and that was how I lost that friendship, because we weren't doing things together as before again because of what happened that day.
In conclusion, wealth always changes someone, it might be change of character, lifestyle, association, environment and many more. All this can affect your friendships both positively or negatively at the long run when you discover someone close to you is rich.
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