![]() Today is the day, like yesterday and like tomorrow, when you will hear a couple of words a lot. This morning, I got this arrestingly misleading, three-colored message from my bank, asking me to move towards independence by taking a loan on my credit card and to increase my credit limit so that I can be free to spend more. How can a loan, or spending more (simply because I can), put me on the path to financial freedom? I went back to one poem that has stayed with me from my school days. The one that is most quoted when the tricolor is in season. Where the mind is without money fear Where the mind is without money fear And the head is held confidently high Where finance knowledge is free and sought Where the world has not been broken up into extremes By birth, faith or narrow money walls Where words speaking needs and dreams Come out from the depth of truth And are heard with true empathy By those who know more and can advise with integrity Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards freedom Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way Into the dreary desert sand of apps and influencer mirages Where the mind is led forward by simple goals Down the ever-vigilant path of thought and action Into that heaven of finance freedom, my Father, Please let us all awake. Thank you my good friend Lovaii Navlakhi, for being a patient money teacher for so long. And apologies, Rabindranath Tagore, for twisting your precious words to send this message. First published here.
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