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renerod
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Hello dear Cookies

I'm glad to read your post and I think you have a good heart. And that's one of the most important things in life, because no matter if you are rich, mid class or poor, you're always going to help someone in need.

Yes, we have nothing assured in this life. When the pandemic started, my own brother went bankrupt because of a divorce and lack of business. He lost his dearest 16610LV (which he asked me if I wanted to rescue from the loan shop, which I couldn't because of lack of money), along with several other fine watches and his BMW. But he doesn't regret it because he could bring food to his sons and pay the rent and debt. He went into depression and for a time, and reached the bottom. Of course he had friends and family who helped him as we could, and eventually he's starting to raise his business again. Now he sees life differently and he is even more compassionate about people in need. He still loves watches and eventually will buy another sub, but he will not loose his sleep if he can't. He continues to enjoy watches for what they are and has settled for the moment with a nice Seiko 5 which I helped him to get at a very good price, and another dear purist friend helped me to bring home.

In the other side, I work for a government health program which serves the poorest people in my country. And I have seen a lot of poverty and worked for them, bringing food and medicine, as well as teaching them productive activities and community development. But sometimes it looks like it will never be enough.

Every time I wear an expensive watch, I think it is somehow contradictory. It is sometimes hard to deal with. But also sometimes poverty is not because of lack of means, but because lack of education. And that is the worst type for me.

So how do I rationalize this: well, first: my father taught me we are all equal, second, he also taught me to try to help others, anyway you can, and third he taught me also to live well and enjoy finer things in life, earned with the sweat of your hard work. I also want to inherit my son a nice watch collection, just as my dad left me some nice watches. We have to find some kind of equilibrium: find the way to give to others as well to our families and to ourselves (prosperity).

I have seen people starving and I have seen tons of fruit getting rotten in the ground because lack of resources to move them from the orchard, to where it's needed, and because of unfair market. This makes me always ask: what could I do? How could I solve this? And almost always the answer is: lots of money. Even if I sold all my watches it would be not enough. It makes me always laugh when very rich, ultra rich organizations try to justify their agenda saying they are looking for sustainability, and a better distribution of wealth (yes, they mean the wealth of others, not theirs) and I think: well, give me all those money you have stashed in your mega-banks and I will organize a world distribution network to take food from where it is being wasted to where it is needed. With that king of money we could well afford a plane and truck flotilla to take food anywhere in the world no matter the cost! If there's lack of food and poverty is not because of lack of food production, or resources, but because of politics.

Anyway, I'm sorry for the rant here. I just wanted to close my writing by saying: help anyway you can, always, and you will find the way to make this world better from where you stand.

And also enjoy your watches even if someone doesn't understand our passion, but always remember they are objects, beautiful, enjoyable, but still objects.

All this takes me to a more important think which I have learned here: friendship is much better than richness, because with friends, we can always have or give help, and do much greater things than alone. For me friendship is synonymous of organized good!

Best regards.

René

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