Viscous circle of "perceived" poverty

Lemme not get into economics fundaz as except me everyone hated it since my school day. Here I want to bring out the mind-set of the typical Human being.

First lemme talk about myself then we can talk about Humans [:D]. Off late, I have been getting this internal pangs to buy a house for myself (not that i dont have one now) - pangs to own a better house. So more often than not I have these feeling that "Y M I SO POOR, that i cant afford a descent house for my family"....

I am sure many of us wud be getting such feelings, though it might not be for house but for Pair of Wrangler jeans or Merc S-class or pataofy new richie rich chic u have known offlate [;)]. We often "perceive" ourselves to be poor & thats wer these viscous circle starts....

According to me poverty is "lack of enough income and resource to live adequately by community standards" so its not just lack of resources, but its the "persception of inadequacy"

Remember those school days, Rs 100/month meant so many candies, sandwiches, so many icecreams & above all that happiness to have this all. Those college days, Rs 100/ week. One 4 year old faded jeans was still part of our wardrobes, 1 cigarette 4 friends still was fun, tapri-cutting was more soothing than CCD frappe. Now at more than Rs 100/hour we are "poor". Here, I dont ask you to dwell in past (atleast I always luk forward for future), but to demonstrate that present is not all that gloomy. Our flawed internal thinking ensures that we are not able to enjoy the fruits of our labour.

Just take the e.g of Slumdog Millionaire's (Slum-M) child fame Azharuddin. He lived in slums for 10 years, luck changed & had this opportunity to be in a 5-Star hotel in Hollywood for 5 days during Oscars function & on his return to India he felt India was hot & full of mosquitoes. Just imagine 5days changed his persception to such an extent that he wont enjoy playing with his frenz in those dusty grounds they used to before Slum-M, nor would he cherish sleeping under the moon as before. He has suddenly turned "Poor".

Another thing I dont understand is about people in perpetual "Middle Class".... Inspite of double income, 2 houses, 3 cars they still call themselves "Middle-Class". Behaving like a middle-class seems like a taboo and can be a big put-off. It also hurts the person and restricts progress and enjoyment....resulting to poverty...

But think about millions who are deprived of daily meals...ARE WE really poor???...I guess not...

Think about it......