The Battle For Financial Freedom.
Current economic times have pushed up the ante for financial frredom. It has just got much tougher. Or has it?
Refugee Camp In Thailand @ 1982
The following is an anecdote about the battle for freedom. It is specifically aimed at those of you who think you’ve got it bad.
Imagine yourself in a war torn zone where human life is treated as less valuable than lifestock. It’s true. Lifestock you can kill and eat but another human is another mouth to feed and a possible enemy who will not balk at snuffing your life out in an instant.
In the aftermath of the Vietnam War, strife bombardment and the killing continued in the region until at least 1989. The story of the Killing Fields” was but one example of the stories that came pouring out as people left that region in search of peace and life by the hundreds of thousands. Those that made it to the refugee camps counted themselves lucky.
But as many as those that escaped, many more, perhaps ten times more did not. No, I do not mean they could not leave the countries of Vietnam, Cambodia (Kampuchea today), and Laos, they were fleeing from. I mean they will never leave. Death in the most horrendous way awaited most of them.
They all have to cross what the military calls the killing zone. This is no man’s land. Anyone crossing the last several kilometers will likely get blown up or shot to pieces. Even young children who brave the crossing were not given any quarter.
And in time – for those that made it across the Thai border or were found floundering helplessly in the South China Sea, life in the refugee camps eventually became a new life in their new adoptive country. Hong Kong, Canada, USA, France, Brittain, Germany, Australia all played significant roles in accepting those seeking refuge.
To them, just having the passage and a life to live, with food to eat daily, a simple roof over their heads, new family and friends around them, was financial freedom. Because, as they often commented to me then, “What more could we want? This is all we need.”
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