WHEN MONEY DECIDES WHO YOU ARE

Landivola

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Money is no longer a tool. It has become a mirror. Not the kind that shows you who you are. The kind that decides what you are allowed to be.

When you lack money, your body changes before your life does. You breathe differently. You calculate your steps. You choose your words more carefully. You become smaller. Not because you are weak. Because the world trained you to be.

Asking becomes a wound. Not because it is difficult. But because it forces you to justify your existence.

You do not ask for help. You negotiate your dignity. You explain your choices. You prove your worth. You apologize for being tired. You apologize for not being “there yet.” You apologize for not being optimized.

Money has turned time into a debt. Rest into laziness. Silence leads to failure. Slowness into suspicion.

You are not poor. You are under constant evaluation.

And the worst part is not the lack. Not even the fear.

It is the moment you start monitoring yourself. Counting your words. Weighing your existence.

It is when you no longer ask what you want. You ask what you are allowed to be.

And quietly, you reduce your life to what your bank account permits.

Not because you lack courage. But because the world taught you that existence is conditional.

D.L. Landivola