{"id":1520,"date":"2011-12-14T09:56:57","date_gmt":"2011-12-14T14:56:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/verastic.com\/?p=1520"},"modified":"2012-10-18T02:27:12","modified_gmt":"2012-10-18T06:27:12","slug":"to-be-rich-and-famous-what-it-means-to-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/verastic.com\/site\/vl\/to-be-rich-and-famous-what-it-means-to-me.html","title":{"rendered":"To Be Rich And Famous: What It Means To Me"},"content":{"rendered":"

In my last post<\/a><\/strong>, I promised to come back one day and talk about what being rich and famous means to me. Well, forty-eight whole hours later, that day has come. I may be wrong, but I think it is everyone’s – or most people’s – aspiration to be rich. This is sometimes called being comfortable or being wealthy. Whatever it may be called, I think the general interpretation is that we all want to be financially saturated. Okay, ‘financially saturated’ seems to further complicate the definition. But I’ll tell you what it means to me in simple words.<\/p>\n

Being rich and famous means the following to me (individually and collectively):<\/p>\n

1.<\/strong> \u00a0It means having enough to be able to wake up on a Tuesday morning and go shopping on a whim – not because I need the items right now, not because there is a sale, and not because I just got paid. But just because.<\/p>\n

2.<\/strong> \u00a0It means going on vacation on Monday — without having to apply for off days — that may or may not be approved by the boss — and will negatively affect my salary at the end of the month.<\/p>\n

3.<\/strong> \u00a0It means people knowing my name and what I do for a living, but not ever knowing more than I want them to know.<\/p>\n

4.<\/strong> \u00a0It means spending the weekend in Abu Dhabi because I’m bored and shopping in Paris because I can.<\/p>\n

5.<\/strong> \u00a0It means waking up on Thursday and deciding that I’d rather work from home and having no one to answer to.<\/p>\n

6.<\/strong> \u00a0It means having a personal assistant to make all my appointments and follow up on my stuff<\/em>.<\/p>\n

7.<\/strong> \u00a0It means having as many home employees as I deem fit: nanny, help, gardener, gate man, driver… and err, husband.<\/p>\n

8.<\/strong> \u00a0It means attending my children’s functions, be it a basketball practice, sitting on Santa’s laps, or selling their fallen tooth to the imaginary tooth fairy.<\/p>\n

9.<\/strong> \u00a0It means having enough food to feed my three boys: husband and confusingly identical twin boys.<\/p>\n

10.<\/strong> \u00a0It means being able to surprise my husband at any time for no reason.<\/p>\n

11.<\/strong> \u00a0It means always having a fridge full of food.<\/p>\n

12.<\/strong> \u00a0It means having a house big enough to fit me, my husband, our children, our house employees, and any guests we may have.<\/p>\n

13.<\/strong> \u00a0It means having a closet big enough to be an apartment.<\/p>\n

14.<\/strong> \u00a0It means wining and dining with Pete Edochie, Bill and Hillary Clinton, Hilda Dokubo, Oprah, Liz Benson, Chinua Achebe, Simon Cowell, Adele, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Timi Dakolo, Emem Issong, TY Bello, 2Face Idibia, Adol, and Barack Obama. Michelle can come, too.<\/p>\n

15.<\/strong> \u00a0It means having way more than 30 bottles of perfume.<\/p>\n

16.<\/strong> \u00a0It means owning all the businesses I currently dream of owning.<\/p>\n

17.<\/strong> \u00a0It means building a bigger hospital for dad, and buying a bigger SUV for mom. (As little as she is, she loves big vehicles).<\/p>\n

18.<\/strong> \u00a0It means taking my friends – especially Funmie and Uju – on a shopping spree and not shivering at the items they pick.<\/p>\n

19.<\/strong> \u00a0It means having more money than I have budgeted to spend.<\/p>\n

20.<\/strong> \u00a0It means being relevant and timeless in every area of my life.<\/p>\n

21.<\/strong> \u00a0It means also being known in the heavenly realm of life, and having God answer me seven times when I call Him only once.<\/p>\n

22.<\/strong> \u00a0It means standing boldly in the face of those that did\/do not believe in me and saying to them, “Look at me now.”<\/em><\/p>\n

23.<\/strong> \u00a0It means employing those people – the ones that did\/do not believe in me.<\/p>\n

24.<\/strong> \u00a0It means positively changing the lives of everyone that comes in contact with me.<\/p>\n

25.<\/strong> \u00a0It means having a happy husband and disciplined children.<\/p>\n

26.<\/strong> \u00a0It means owning two healthy German Shepherd dogs.<\/p>\n

27.<\/strong> \u00a0It means having a make-up artist, a stylist, a trainer, and a hair dresser – all at my personal disposal – regardless of what anyone may think of it.<\/p>\n

28.<\/strong> \u00a0It means making money while I’m sleeping.<\/p>\n

29.<\/strong> \u00a0It means people I do not know go above and beyond to favor me.<\/p>\n

30.<\/strong> \u00a0It means having people I know and do not know lift my name up in prayers to God.<\/p>\n

31.<\/strong> \u00a0It means my husband being the luckiest man on earth.<\/p>\n

32.<\/strong> \u00a0It means being Verastic outside and wife and mother inside.<\/p>\n

33.<\/strong> \u00a0It means owning all the Sony gadgets I want – whether or not I need them or know how to use them.<\/p>\n

34.<\/strong> \u00a0It means remaining humble no matter how rich or famous I become.<\/p>\n

35.<\/strong> \u00a0It means not panicking when I get a bill.<\/p>\n

36.<\/strong> \u00a0It means not working just to pay bills and having nothing in savings.<\/p>\n

37.<\/strong> \u00a0It means having someone run my errands. Can’t stand meat markets. Yuck.<\/p>\n

38.<\/strong> \u00a0It means having bras, underwears, scarves, and shoes in all colors.<\/p>\n

39.<\/strong> \u00a0It means always having something to blog about.<\/p>\n

40.<\/strong> \u00a0Finally, it means being me. Everyday. All day.<\/p>\n

I’m sure there are more. I just haven’t thought about them yet.<\/p>\n

>>> Join me on\u00a0Facebook<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0and on\u00a0Twitter<\/a><\/strong>. Let’s talk <<<<\/span><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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