Things to Remember if You're Ever Rich

• That the person waiting on you, or helping you with your groceries, or cooking your meal may be a lot smarter than you are.
• Don't ever talk to people like they're less intelligent than you are. Otherwise you'll end up like the present state of the Democratic Party.
• Remember that you can make about 30 times the amount of tapenade you just bought for roughly the same price as that little jar.
• If anyone ever calls, emails, or interviews with you about getting a job, make sure you email them back. Even if it just says "sorry, we hired someone else." That way they don't hang in fucking limbo for weeks at a time.
• The days you were not only mentally exhausted, but also physically exhausted. Oh yeah, and also broke. That too.
• That you have people that loved you when you were poor, stressed out, and acting like an ass.
• Don't take a cab everywhere. Set some sort of limit. For example: when it's raining, when the bus is no longer running, when it's 85 degrees or higher, when you're running late, and when you're dressed up and don't want to get dissheveled on the public transit.
• Simple things: Cold cheap beer, a chilled out night of pool, and discussions about oh, maybe sex, drugs, rock and roll, football. As opposed to: Bombay Sapphire gin and tonics, nights that begin at an expensive restaurant and end $300 later, and discussions about whose firm has better perks than whose.
• That you could be 35, working two jobs, raising two kids, and still paying rent.
• When a pair of $95 running shoes was busting the bank.
• Dinners of eggs and a bagel.
• Walking the mile and half to school because you didn't have cash for the bus. You weren't completely broke-you could've taken out a twenty and gotten change. But if you had done that, you know that $20 would have disappeared like you never had it.
• When you debated for a week about dropping $450 on a suit.
• That you are not a good person because of how smart you are, or because of what firm you work for, or because of what case you win, or because of what department you're in, or because of what school you go to, or because of how much money you make.
• Debating whether you could afford that delicious $0.99 Potbelly Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookie. You could.
• That at the end of the day, if you've got you're health, a little bit of spending money, at least one person that loves you, and a roof over your head, you are better off than most people in this world.
• That success is based largely on luck. Don't get me wrong, there's some skill and hardwork involved. But there's also luck.
• Relax, because in the end, it's not worth worrying about.

"Beneath the cigarettes and sugar shit of alcohol brand, I can taste the ocean on your tongue, Remember when we sat on the sidewalk, of your, boat dock, against the wall, under the stars, talking about love's meaning? Well, I wasn't dreaming."

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