Contentment is the Winning Word

So it has been a while since I've sat down and wrote but today I had the sudden urge to do so. Not about anything specific I guess but just to enjoy the feeling of putting words down on paper. Or a screen to be more accurate. It has been an interesting few months since last posted on here and what I've learned as of recently is when life hits you it hits you pretty dang hard, and it usually aims for very sensitive areas. For me life came in the from of college loans. My previous idea that I had a six month window in which after I would start paying was shattered when I received my "This is how much you owe and you have to pay it....." NEXT MONTH! $13,000 dollars of student loans with no job, no money, and no means of acquiring said amount of money besides maybe robbing a bank but I don't look good in orange. So to say the least these last few days have been filled to the brim with stressful, mind racing thoughts of how I'm going to start paying this money back. but I had a small idea pop into my head, and with every thought that became devoted to that idea it grew until I finally thought to myself "Are you mental? How could writing help you make $$$$$. At this level at least? I mean of course big name authors make all the big bucks but how could a small internet blog make me any money at all? People. Lots and lots of people. Like any other service or idea it requires an audience someone to market towards to place your idea in front of and catch there eye. But for me who could that be? Others struggling with debt like me? The millions upon millions of students who attend overpriced colleges in order to leave there without a job and without a hope of every surfacing from the ocean that is their student loans. Or maybe people who like to write not necessarily books, but just short stories, small fantasies to take there mind from what this world is. Corrupt, One-sided, Greedy, Narcissistic. Of course there are exceptions to these traits but truthfully the majority of those people are on the losing team. But why does one sacrifice what he/she knows is right? Smashing their moral compass to wander there way to the "winning" side.Because that is where "prosperity" is in the eyes of our society. Money, things, lots and lots of things, power and standing and position above our peers. But what about contentment? is that so far gone that no one is happy with the things that they have. Not needing MORE and BIGGER things just cause he or she got one or has one or is getting one. I say when a family learns to live within their means and with contentment that is when our society will be truly happy. That is when our "carbon footprint" will be smaller, that is when our "deficit" will get smaller, That is when our "stress" will be less. Ooh I rhymed. And it is when people who are needed to lead will step forth.