It's No Shame To Be Poor . . . But It's No Great Honor Either

 "I Know, I know. It's no shame to be poor...but it's no great honor either."

If there's anything I've learned from Tevier and Hamilton both, it's that sitting at the bottom of the socially-financially-able pile really sucks.

Tevier's stirring "if I were a rich man" is enough to make even rich men wish they were rich men. 

I was born into a family who lived way below the poverty line. I'm still in a family that makes less than the poverty level.

So what the heck?

Why the preoccupation with trying to be something I'm not?

Is it that I simply buy into society's ideals? 

Is it that I don't have everything I want and I simply want what I don't have?

Is it more than that?

Bottom line: it is no shame to be poor.