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Shanon is a journalist for an online news portal Her news portal is a hit on social media and other platforms,they have been pretty much viral for all the right reasons, mostly because of their philanthropist works. Her organisation was chasing a prodigy, Jake because he was a philanthropist himself. He was constantly denying calls for interviews,but eventually he gave in. She interviewed him over the call , keeping the pandemic in mind. Following is the article written by the journalistThe Prodigy SpeaksMalibu, California: Jake , the famous prodigy finally gave in and got ready for an interview with us, we chased him for days at end and now finally he agreed to interact with us.Jake is a highly down to earth child, he is fifteen years old but he behaves like he is already an adult. We firstly inquired as to why he was denying interviews with us, to which he replied that he never wanted the attention, he knew that he is a genius, but still he wanted to be treated like other kids. He was never fond of fame but his mind blowing mind never allowed people to be mum about him.He is such an inquisitive child that he started inquiring us about our portal and how it works. He was excited about our venture going viral and how we are doing an excellent work by reaching out to millions of people and how our organization reaches out to people who need our assistance in any way or need our help financially , mentally or physically. Such a polite child he was, we were thrilled to be in conversation with him.We further inquired him about his routine and how does he spend his spare time, to which he replied that he is fond of playing piano and playing online games. There is one particular game that he likes playing is clash royale galaxy. He tells that the game is not like other games, it has a clash royale generator which provides with gems which boosts your character in the game. He seemed to be really excited about the game and was talking endlessly about it. His routine seemed to be quite like a normal child. He loves spending time with his cute little dog Daniel and just like other kids he loves going to school.We inquired him about his childhood, to which he said that he remembers quite a deal about it. He started walking earlier than the other kids and he learnt to speak fluently at a very early age. By the age of seven, he was able to speak four languages fluently, that is, English, French, Spanish and Russian. Further, we asked him about his charity work and why he never spent his pocket money or his scholarship on food and games like other kids of his age did, to which he replied that the people who are actually needy could put his money to better use and the level of satisfaction he gets with the smile of the person who gets the money is much more valuable than the dollars he has in his pocket.Jake truly is a prodigy and he has a heart of gold. This world needs more people like Jake to make it a better place to live in.

Little Chandler Geller is sitting all alone in his room, upset with his parents. Meanwhile, Mr. and Mrs. Geller -the parents of the new generation, work hard to make the future of their child safe and secure, while leaving Chandler all alone with the grumpy nanny. Chandler wished for his parent’s company, he wanted to play with them, he wanted to do his homework with them, he even wanted them to scold him, but professing his feelings was in vain. All he heard was “Not today, son” , ” We will play on the weekend , honey” , “Ask the nanny to help you” , “Mommy is busy, son” , ” Daddy needs to take this call” and what not. Chandler used to be so jealous of his friends whose parents used to drop and pick them up, who used to attend recitals, who had siblings to play with.

Chandler got an idea, he thought that asking his parents for their time is useless, so why not ask them to give him a sibling, in that way at least he would have someone to play with and he wouldn’t be all alone. Chandler loved this idea in his head and got very excited to tell his parents about it. He went to their room in the middle of the night, knocked the door and announced that he wanted to talk to them about something serious. The parents got really worried that what was so important that Chandler woke them up in the middle of the night. When Chandler broke this idea to his parents, they were speechless and were just looking towards each other in disbelief. They could not believe that their child was asking them for a sibling as they thought that their boy was perfectly happy as it is. Mr. and Mrs. Geller asked Chandler for some time to discuss about this, to which, Chandler agreed. Both of them knew that having another child was out of the question because the expenses were way too much to handle a single child already, and having a child would only aggravate the situation. The parents then came up with a better idea which Chandler would surely love, they decided to give Chandler his eighth birthday present a little sooner.

The next morning he saw his mum getting the breakfast ready but daddy was nowhere to be seen, he got upset that daddy had left for work without even talking to him about what they had talked about last night. He was sadly sitting on the dinner table waiting for mom to bring breakfast so that he could leave for school, but what he saw next made him overwhelmed with joy and happiness. Dad had a dog in his hand! That too a Hawaiian poi, the breed his best friend Joey had ! Chandler loved Joey’s dog ,but he never thought that he will get a dog of his own one day. Chandler had tears of joy in his eyes and he hugged the dog for several minutes. He showered the dog with many kisses and hugs and names him Pogo. Pogo was the perfect furry mate for Chandler, he was playful , cute and adorable. Also, Chandler started getting more time from his parents. Chandler was again a happy and jolly kid.

Money saved is equal to money earned. I have heard this advice a lot of times. There was a time when I used to believe that earning more money makes you rich. There was a time when everybody used to think like that. As kids, we were taught to become well educated and get a decent job to get a good livelihood. While there was nothing majorly incorrect with that approach, nobody told us about the basic fundamentals of money that can make us wealthy and prosperous.

I had always thought about making more money when I grew up. I was doing a job as a software developer and I was earning decent money from it. I loved my work and everything seemed fine. However, there was one thing that kept bothering me. By the end of every month, I used to have this overwhelming feeling of guilt for spending my hard-earned money carelessly. I used to feel really bad about how I mishandled the money.

One fine day I took the time to go through my spending for the last two years. I was shocked to find that I had spent more than 30000 bucks on entertainment and other unimportant things. No wonder I still can’t pay my mortgage bills on time. My poor spending habits were having a terrible impact on my finances. 

I decided to change after that. I took my finances seriously and started taking note of my day-to-day spendings. It was the first month of the Covid 19 lockdown. One of the biggest impacts of this lockdown was the breakdown of the financial strength of companies. The economy of the world was beginning to go downhill. There were serious predictions on how this situation can change the whole world financially. 

I looked closely at the declining value of the company shares I had bought. I knew that there was nothing that I could do about it. I also realized that there were certain things that I could do that could keep me financially safe in these crazy times.

I had started working from home as directed by my manager. There was a considerable cut down in the salary that I was offered. I couldn’t do much about it. However, I could take note of my expenses and cut them down. I could save every penny that would otherwise go into unwanted goods and services. I took care to keep my savings safe. 

In about three months, there were hardly any major expenses on goods. Other than the grocery expenses, there was just one expense that happened. I bought a storage heater and that was it. The storage heater is one of the most efficient of all other products in that category. Buying it was worth it.

Another three months later, I got to learn that there was a considerable amount of fund that was coming from the Government as emergency relief. I had already saved $800 by then. The $300 relief package made it possible to cut down further expense and thereby save more money.