Chapter 2:The Rat Race (English),I'm not a rat anymore!

Yes ~~ Imagine that you put a rat on a track. The first thing that the rat do is try to balancing itself by moving forward. In the beginning, it run slowly, then it fasten its steps and then finally, the rat running endlessly to balance itself. The process continue until it is out of energy. The rat actually is running at the same point without any forward and backward although it had used up most of its energy.

This thing happen to some us in real life too. After graduate, students try to find a secure job with high paid salary. At first, they are happy with salary received. They buy a new car to gratify themselves. After sometimes, they change to new car and buy a new house. Everything is new. To make sure that we have enough money to pay the monthly installment, they work harder in their career to get promoted so that they can pay the monthly installment and expenses, just like the rat fasten its steps and then running endlessly. In the end, when they retire, they find that they are actually still at the same point 20 years ago.

This is the rat race message that bring out by Robert T.Kiyokasi, author of Rich Dad Poor Dad. This is the biggest message I received from the Robert T.Kiyosaki’s series of books. How many of you already get out of rat race? (Although i'm jobless right now,but at least I'M DOING and planning something to made myself escape from this dilemma )

Somebody will ask me this question :
What does this rat race trying to imply? We shouldn’t be striving to work hard?
The ans is :

The rat race imply us which is also being jailed in a circle. We almost doing the same things everyday and the purpose is settle the end month bills and installments. After 10 years, we are still doing the same things, to pay the installments and bills! What we should do is to get out of rat race and achieve financial freedom as early as possible.

We should work hard but not spend hard. We need to take our money to work for us but not just to make the end months meet. Through investing we can build up our wealth and achieve financial freedom.