I am being even-handed when I say that I grew up in poverty and have developed a lot of classist beliefs from my early years.
- I do not find wealth to be charming or something to envy; instead I know that it is disgusting and counterproductive to civilization.
When I meet someone and they reveal a rich family or lack of student debt, I have a tendency to back away hastily. Yes, my opinions are really pretty hard-lined. That being said, I recently had one of the most fantastic experiences with a fantastically wealthy person who I met through my work. He invited me over to discuss further company ventures together, and I hastily fell in love with his lifestyle. More identifiably, I hastily fell in love with his central heating and cooling system that ran his lifestyle at home. When I first walked into his home, I couldn’t help however notice that the air felt cleaner and more consistent than other sites. I normally feel a lot of frightening drafts and cold air pockets when I walk around in forced air heating and cooling systems, however somehow there was a calm and constant quality to the air in his house unlike anything I’ve felt before. I spent an hour or so playing it cool and pretending that I wasn’t distracted by the high quality heat that surrounded my entire body, however eventually I had to ask how his indoor air felt so amazing. He graciously told me that he recently had his central boiler replaced with radiant heated flooring and shrugged it off like it didn’t matter. Meanwhile, I went condo cursing myself for my failures that prevented me from becoming rich enough for radiant radiant floors.