Friendship Trumps Wealth Always

Hello, wonderful honors people Please excuse my two-minute tardiness on beginning this blog post. However, I am thankful to share that I have experienced quite a revelation due to rather recent events. I'm going to share it with you now. 

Grab your chocolate milk (or right now, Coke for me because I've been a late night warrior lately) ((pun intended)) and tune in to what I think is a rather valuable piece of information. 

So, something that Our Lady Philosophy graciously speaks of in Book 2 is that wealth is rather ironically worthless. What she is trying to break down to Boethius (in a rather Descartes fashion) is that wealth is just something that Lady Fortune tricked him into loving and believing to be necessary for Him to have and love: fame and glory and possessions. Now that Boethius is in bad circumstances, he has completely lost sight of every good part of his life that can't be taken away (i.e.  his wife, his kids, his friends, the Lady Philosophy herself, etc) and moreover, he has forgotten himself. In trying to show this to him, she begins to explain how the lady Fortune works in his life and what she did to get him here, that she "tricked you with the promises of a counterfeit happiness". 

One of the most pressing questions she asks Boethius and, let's be honest, the readers as well, is this: 

"Do you really value a happiness that will pass away?" 

This hit me like a freight train. Because look at our world! Almost everyone out there today is trying to pursue a happiness that will only fade away over and over and over again, and none of them will really and truthfully be fulfilled. This is a big big problem. 

Now I bring you to my revelation and it is quite simply put that friendship trumps wealth. The reason I say this is expressed in the light of a gathering of friends I was a part of earlier tonight, in which we expressed to each other our problems, worked them out, and proceeded to compliment each other personally. This kind of friendly love is something that no one, not even Lady Fortune can take away from us, and I find that it is crucial to have that said love, because when you put your love in some physical relationship with a significant other or in your car or in how many followers or likes that you have, it only fades away. It is temporary, as it says in 1st Corinthians 13: "Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge; it will pass away. For we know in part and we prophesy in part, but when completeness comes, what is in part disappears." 

1st Corinthians closes with something that I find to be very important. 

"The greatest of these is love." (1st Corinthians 13:13) 

I encourage you guys tonight (or really this morning) to have a friend in Jesus. Because he never fails, and His love is something that no one else can take away from you.

 Wealth can literally be lost in seconds. 

Just keep these things in mind. Peace out homies.

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