Treasures

If you can look at the power to work as a blessing, you are gifted.
If you can see obstacles and hardship as opportunities to expand, or turn bad to good, you are noble.
If you do not blame and wail, but keep a stiff spine, you have attitude.
If you meet vice and evils beyond your comprehension, and are determined to carry the burden with grace, you are brave.
If you have lived long enough to understand and feel that we are here for each other, and that virtues alone can pour your cup of joy, you have unlocked the unconditional capacity of your heart.
If you have had the chance to grow a rich inner life; to see the beauty in the way people meet challenges, in the way people stand up for themselves and others, then you are lucky.
If you get the chance to live for something beyond yourself, you belong to the universe.
If you are prepared to die at any moment, you are alive.
If you do not seek to survive, to exist, but to live and thrive, you have mastered life.
If you have dug into the dirt and lifted rough rocks, and found these treasures,  you are truly rich, my friend. And no one is able to prevent this.