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Can you elaborate on wanting for nothing? As in were you spoiled and got everything you want? Or you didn't want to do anything? I grew up poor. I learned to h
by UrMomReadsHN 12y ago
Can you elaborate on wanting for nothing? As in were you spoiled and got everything you want? Or you didn't want to do anything?
I grew up poor. I learned to hear "no." The concept of an allowance was completely foreign. I am a better person for it. I learned to appreciate what I have and I learned creative thinking to invent things to do when I didn't have toys to play with.
I see a lot of people I know now who grew up with everything they wanted- they can seem very empty inside...
- axotty 12y agoGood for you :)
- lbotos 12y agoNot OP but my best friend in High School was basically OP. My family was "house broke" and I never had allowance, everything was "no" (literally everything) and I learned early that I had to make for myself. Worked through High School, saved up for the gadgets I wanted, etc. Best Friend came from a wealthy doctor's family. Large house. Every game console, new computers/cameras/etc basically every 10mo. He isn't passionate. He never had to work to put two and two together. It was a credit card away. He got whatever he wanted whenever he wanted (I wouldn't call it spoiled, just more so "available"). He just doesn't have drive because he never _had_ to. It's like the quote "If you can, give your kids enough to do something, but don't give them enough to do nothing."
- sukilot 12y ago"Wanting for nothing" is an idiom that means "got everything I wanted, do nothing is left to want"
- UrMomReadsHN 12y agoThanks! Never heard of that one before.