I live paycheck to paycheck - I just don’t dwell on that fact as The Determening factor of the measure of my life

The biggest breakthrough I had is when I embraced my life for what it is and decided to enjoy it

I no longer live in the vicious cycle of berating myself for failure or not being rich enough to be worthy of praise and self esteem. I don’t conditionally give myself permission to be happy only once I am successful enough. I don’t measure myself by someone else’s standards about what I ought to be, or ought to do or ought to feel

Instead, I whistle while I work, when I worry and can’t go to sleep I count my blessings instead of sheep

If you don’t like making a decision between a phone service and (whatever else was supposed to go there) spare a thought for those among us who have to make that decision between medication and food. And show a little gratitude you don’t count yourself among those

I can tell you are bitter about your circumstances and that’s bad for you. Nobody else cares if you’re unhappy with your life or not. Not internet strangers, not motivational speakers

I offer you this as someone who was were you are and moved passed it. It might not be what you would like to hear but it is a view point that comes from a place of experience and sincerity

You do with that what you will

https://zenpencils.com/comic/69-buddha-less-is-more/

PS don’t fall into the trap of believing an ism will solve your problems. That’s a fool’s errand

"The goal of the passive-aggressive person is to get someone else to visibly act out the anger that they have been concealing,"

Okay

'Per my last email', 'Any update on this?', 'Please advise', 'Re-attaching for convenience'

How are those phrases in particular helping anyone achieve a goal of getting someone to “visibly act out anger they have been concealing”?

Also angry and concealing emotional state is technically exhibiting traits of passive aggressive behavior

passive-aggressive

adjective

of or denoting a type of behaviour or personality characterized by indirect resistance to the demands of others and an avoidance of direct confrontation

I mean, come on. If you receive an email asking for a follow-up on a discussion you had IRL and you perceive that request to be an act of hostility because you are concealing anger - is it really fair to say that the email is passive-aggressive rather than the recipient?

So on a point-by-point basis:

On how easy this guy's life is? Yes, I disagree. It's certainly easier than someone who lives in abject poverty or dying of famine but life is not easy. Not for anyone. Life is difficult. I disagree that this person's pain of loss or loneliness is easier than anyone else's because he has money to buy distractions. IMO that makes it different but not easier. Pain is pain and loss is loss and loneliness is loneliness whether you think you can buy your way out of it or not they remain an absolute

On how dreams don’t put food on the table? I do disagree. I am living my dream and putting food on the table. I have met others who told me the same. I have heard other (like this guy) speak of it

Or about the benefits of “living without regrets?” I have certainly discovered the benefits as a first-hand experience so yes I disagree

Or perhaps the motive that these rich people tell us poor people to live under the guise of ‘money can’t buy happiness?’ What exactly is their motive? I don't follow what your point is supposed to be. That all rich people are banded together in one, homogeneous cabal conspiring to delude you into thinking positively and striving to succeed because that is how they continue to enslave you? Well... that's a little out there, wouldn't you agree? Especially since you clearly don't "buy it" yet you are still "enslaved", not so?