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AFRIKA IS GOD’S
"Of what use is it really to
buy the things you really
don't need with the mon-
ey you really dont have,
just so you can impress
those that really may not
be looking at you?. "
LIVING
SIMPLE: Check your cost of living
Samuel Phillips
f what use is it really few friends about what is real in heads. But my question always
to buy the things you real estate, but none has given is this, why do so much to keep
really don’t need with me an answer yet. So I guess a dying narrative going on? It
Omoney you really don’t maybe there is no answer, and doesn’t make sense to me and
have, just so you can impress if that is the case, then it must neither do I find wisdom in it at
those that may not even be be either that it’s a make believe all. Am I against the good things
looking at you? It does not make estate or the people who de- in life? Heavens, no! Should
any sense to me. Of what use pend on it are not telling them- people not expand their frontiers
is it to live in a fine house, got- selves the truth. in what they do? Absolutely,
ten through mortgage to be paid This article actually is not about they should. But what exactly do
over the next thirty years of your real estate as it were, but about we spend time expanding and
life, just so that you make your- the realness of living within one's towards what end do we do so
self feel like you own a house or means in relation to purpose. much; especially when nothing
a landed property? Wisdom is Life has never been about com- really lasts forever in this world.
certainly deeper than that and petition of who gets what first One man's PhD certificate is
life also is certainly worth more or any such thing. Life is simply someone else's tinder for light-
than looking over your shoul- about living in accordance with ing the Jiko (Coal Pot), the fine
ders to see if your creditors are purpose and the various pro- Land Rover of yesterday has
after you. visions given from God to ful- become a towing van today and
Some say it's about the trending fill such purpose. People have the trend has not changed and
middle class boom, but I say it’s gotten into untold debts, which will not likely do so.
about the new noose around the have led to broken relationships,
necks of unsuspecting people battered friendships and they Stop and take a look
who think real estate is really have gone through painful expe- There is a saying that you should
their friend. What is real in real riences just to keep life going on look before you leap. I believe I
estate anyway? I have asked a according to the fantasy in their first heard that line many years
102 | heal . restore . rebirth . Afrika
