You might qualify to have to Robin Leach, from Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous, come to house. Of course you did to be famous, but if you live in America, chances are you meet the qualifications for rich. I know must of us don't think about how we rich we really are, especially in times of an economic crisis, but the reality is that you need to lose more than your job in order to be poor.
Today I got on the Global Rich List to see how my income compared with the rest of the world. I found out that I rank in the top 3% of the world! In fact the median income for Americans in 2008 ($52,209) puts us in the top 0.97% of the world! So are started playing with the numbers. What would you guess is the median income of the world? (that's the amount that divides the top 50% from the bottom 50%). I started a little high, thinking, surely it is in the thousands of dollars/year. Nope, totally wrong. The median income for the word is $850. That's for the whole year! I think I got more money and gifts for my 30th birthday than that. Which makes me sad. It makes me want to change my life. Then I start to wonder if I really have it in me. No, I don't want to try to live on $850 a year, or a month for that matter. Yet I know there is something I can do to add more balance into my life.
One thing that our family has been doing for almost a year now is supporting a child, Lucia, through Compassion International. Lucia lives in Tanzania. Her parents are separated and she has 5 siblings. It costs us abut $30/month to help her go to school. It's not much, but it is helping her. It's a place to start. The rich and famous had to start somewhere, so this is my call to start somewhere, but to go somewhere else with it. Where have you started?
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