One hundred years ago,* the bodies of two men were pulled from the Hudson River near New York City on the same day. One was a poor man who had won $5000 in a sweepstakes contest. He had gone on a spending spree and spent it all.
The other body was that of a wealthy man who had lost all but $5000 in the stock market. Down to his last $5000, he jumped in the river to end it all!
Perspective makes a lot of difference.
How much or how little we have matters little; what matters much is our attitude toward what we have.
Mark
Author of Holy Chaos How To Walk with God in a Frenzied World
*The source of this story has been lost to history.