When I was at a place in my career when I was making 1.8x of my last year’s salary, I had a funny instance happen to me.
I know a well educated, super rich aunty, with a great career behind her, who is now retired from her work and writes poetries. She has also self-published multiple books of her poetries. (Full marks to her for keeping her art alive.)
I do not know whether it is by design or by default, but her passion for writing never translated into something monetary.
So coming back to a conversation when she came to know it had been quite a while I had moved out from my job. She looked at me from top to bottom, and asked with a pitiable face, “Are you able to pay your bills?”
PS: I am very well dressed at all times, just that she was in a place of judging me because she had not seen a life where a writer makes a lot of money. So she was trying to get it vetted. She could not. So she asked me the question after a scroll down my body đŸ™‚
Ah, the joy in living a life so low profile that people do not think you have a lot of money. It is the best feeling in the whole world. And the coolest achievement of my life I guess? đŸ™‚
