Maybe I’m just a prisoner of my own ego.

Chantika Batari
2 min readJan 18, 2021

Does school prepare children for the real world? “Study hard and get good grades and you will find a high-paying job with great benefits,” my parents used to say. I’m just a new reader with Kiyosaki world, it was fatigue and a tough time for me, believe me, I’m still struggling with that. Nothing excites me anymore, I’m trying to connect all the dotes were the missing pieces that maybe I need to collect to make me full. Gentlemen with a shovel and a rose showing their regret to me, I think they’re just full of fabrication.

Being vulnerable is not a crime, in this fast world maybe all we need is to stop and stare. I almost constantly feel like I barely got caught up with everything. I kept having panic attacks, feeling like I haven’t done enough, haven’t put my best on everything. “You’re just 22 years, try to enjoy your life”, another positivism. Another signal that I’ve lost my soul and my voice when I just really hate it when there’s too much manufacture positivism. You need to separate between negativism and being a realist.

All I see is they’re trying so hard to pretending they’re okay when the reality they’re drowning.

The world around us has changed, but the advice hasn’t.

“I don’t want to work as hard as you and dad do. You make a lot of money, and we live in a huge house with lots of toys. If I follow your advice, I’ll wind up like you, working harder and harder only to pay more taxes and wind up in debt. There is no job security anymore; I know all about downsizing and rightsizing. They don’t make nearly as much money as they used to. I know I can’t rely on Social Security or company pensions for retirement. I need new answers.” Kiyosaki’s opening sentence had been stuck with me for a while. Believe me, love, I’m not here to winding up about the financial crisis.

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