Not too long ago a friend told me that he had gone to a dinner meeting. There he met a man who was worth $1 billion. What enormous wealth this man had. He had never met a man worth that much money.
I thought for a moment and then told him, "You are worth $1 billion ." "I'm not worth a billion dollars," he said. I replied, "Give me a couple of months and I will try to contact every person I know and borrow as much money as I can from them. Hopefully I will get $1 billion. Then I will come to you with the billion dollars and will say to you "I will pay you $1 billion for something that you have." "What can I possibly have that is worth $1 billion?" he asked. "I want to buy your wife and two children from you and I will pay you $1 billion." "I'd never agree to a bargain such as that." he said.
"That's right. You see you do have something worth $1 billion. In fact it is much more than $1 billion. It is just not in money or negotiable goods."
So when one person seems to be very wealthy as compared to another, what does that wealth consist of. If it is only of money, it is not much wealth at all. If it consists of family, love, health, and general contentment and happiness, it is of far greater value than all of the money that one could ever use.
Each of us is wealthy. All we have to do is discover how our wealth is distributed and appreciate it.