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“What do you see?”
“Despite all your wisdom and knowledge of energy you’re still not getting it.”
I sat up in my chair. “Excuse me?”
“Everything is energy, right?”
“Right.”
“Which means that money too is just energy.”
“Yes.”
“Energy in itself is neither good or bad, it just is. How you channel that energy will determine the outcome.”
“Uh-huh.”
“You pass judgment on money and associate it with something other people have, not you.”
“I wouldn’t mind having money,” I said.
“You might say that youwantmoney, but whenever you speak of people who are rich I sense resentment.”
“Because rich people use their money for stupid materialistic things that aren’t important.”
“Important to whom? If nobody spent any money there would be no jobs, would there? Who would buy art, furniture, vacations, or go to restaurants, theaters, and sports games? Money serves as a fertilizer, making communities grow when it’s spread out, wouldn’t you agree?”
I thought about it and gave a slight nod.
“Could it be that the only problem here is really you?”
My brows went up. “What’s your point, Violet?”
“My point is that you somehow got it into your head that poor people are kinder and better than rich people. There’s athemversususin your mind.”
I didn’t deny it – how many times had I heard my mom scream that my dad was a rich bastard without morals or conscience?
“And because you want to see yourself as kind and good, you reject the energy of money because being wealthy would make you one ofthem.”
I drew in another deep sigh. “You might have a point.”
“But, Adam, is it really true that poor people are better humans than rich people?” she asked.
“Nooo,” I said, drawn out, because I knew intellectually that it was the right answer. And still I couldn’t help adding, “But you’ve got to admit that the rich are often selfish and opportunistic.”
Violet laughed. “I guarantee you I can find poor people who are selfish and opportunistic too.”
She played with her cup of tea. “I heard of a billionaire who is channeling his entire fortune into solving humanitarian crises around the world. He has brilliant engineers working on transforming seawater into drinking water and finding a way to clean the ocean of plastic. Does that sound selfish to you?”
“No, but I don’t know the details.”
“What about Ashton… Ehhm,” Violet looked up. “I can’t remember his last name, but he’s an actor who uses his fame to fight human trafficking. I guess you could call him opportunistic to use his fame like that, but the thousands of girls and young women who’ve been freed from a life in prostitution, and their families, are more than grateful he did. Maybe some were Native, who knows?”
“I get it,” I said.
“Do you? Because if money is just energy then resenting people with money or feeling unworthy of money is the same as telling the universe that you don’t want it.” She took a sip of her tea.
“I think you have a bigger problem with Chloe’s being rich than she does with your being poor, and you have to remember that what you can offer her, all the money in the world can’t buy her.”
