This is a YouTube video titled "When Money is Lacking... | Dean Graziosi" containing a monologue by Dara Akbar Ladjevardian recorded in September 2024. The speaker reflects on the impact of financial scarcity on personal freedom and life choices, using vivid metaphors to describe how lack of money restricts opportunities and control over one's life.
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When you don't have money, you don't realize, like think about right now if someone grabbed your throat and squeezed it, what would you think about? The only thing in the world is oxygen. Yeah. Right. How do I get more in? Getting free. But you're not thinking about it right now because it's abundant. It's not on your mind. But what you don't realize is when money is lacking in your life, it focuses all the time. I would do that for my kids, but I can't. I'd love to take that vacation, but I can't. I'd love to do my own thing. I'm sick of this unfulfilled job. But I can't. I'd love to be at every baseball game, but I can't. It all boils down to money. I don't care what anybody says. You have the money, you're in control of your decisions, you're in control of your calendar. So, I didn't realize I spent so much of my life with the throat being choked, but it was money. And I watched, that's how my parents lived. I can't go to the baseball game. I can't put the window in the back of the car. We got to get evicted from this trailer because we don't have what? We don't have money. I'd love to say that we live in this perfect world that you don't need money to have choices in your life, but in most cases you don't.
