A New Cause

One of the cool things in college life is that your professor brings a movie to class and lets you watch it during class time. One of the 25 000 wonders in life. Just the other day, Professor Kirby, who is my Geology professor, brought Al Gore's documentary, "An Inconvenient Truth" to class for the students "pleasure". Now, I am not going to go on a rant about what the movie is about, or praise how good it is, or criticize how bad it is, but what I would like to point is not that global warming is a fact, but the movie has inspired me to pursue a cause. Not that, all of a sudden I am going to be super environment-friendly or anything like that. What I am saying is that I believe that by pursuing a cause, will definitely give me, and most probably you, a more fulfilling life. I stress the phrase, "... a cause...", not Al Gore's cause. I mean, it's not like I had no aim in life or anything, I have always wanted to reduce world poverty and all that good shit, but that is where the difference is. The difference is between having a cause, and "pursuing" a cause. I had a cause, but I never really tried hard to do anything about it. I kept telling myself I am not ready, but we all know it's an excuse. The pursuit of a cause requires motivating people, other than myself, to have a common goal, to work and contribute towards an ideal. So anyhow, I just wanna comment that Al Gore did a good job motivating people towards the common goal in reducing global warming. I stress that it is not that he single-handedly reduced global warming, but I think that he has successfully put across the message to the general public that global warming is coming, whether we like it or not, and it's coming fast. So, in short, pursuing a cause is about leaving messages, messages that induce thought and awareness, which is always a good start, which of course, should always be followed by action, otherwise, nothing would happen anyway. So as I have preached (overly so), it is very important that the world needs to know how to be financially intelligent, so that they can stay rich and not squander their money away through debt and interest payments. So, hopefully, after you read this, you will think about what financial intelligence means and what you can do to be financially intelligent.