You have been through this before. Not knowing when the next dollar will come through. You only think that you were out of the deep end because you could pay your bills for a few months, and you considered that breathing room. Problem is you are thinking even right now about digging into your savings and not even for a business plan or model. You really only are thinking that if i get through this next month that everything will be fine for the following. You know it won’t. You don’t need those things you want. You really don’t even need to buy food, but you’re just tired of cooking the same thing over and over again.
This is a mentality that I know all too well. I think most of you reading will say yes, I’ve been there. Or I am there right now. It is ok, just remember to take a step back. Remember what you have, maybe be grateful for what you have for a few moments. Always when you’re facing a problem, you can become clouded by the things you already have. Be inside your house or even just your room for a second. Now put your face right up to something you own. Pretty boring and depressing when you think of how hard you work every day, and you realize that you only have this one thing.
When you stand back and look at the room as a whole, you may think you have a lot. You have worked so hard for years and now when you see how much you have you just might not buy that other thing that you think you needed. Need, need, need. You keep saying this to yourself as if you needed the last 10 things you bought when you really only needed 1 or 2. The same goes for money. Your inability to adapt to the absence of things you have makes you think that you need more than what you own. You fill your home with more and more things in the thought that it may make you happy. You are able to purchase something. When it comes to times when you can’t even afford gas for your car, or put food on your table, have to have friends pay for drinks. The moment you cannot freely make that decision, you will regret the last few things you bought. In a mad dash you will try and return what you bought, or even sell things you have had had for years.
My issue with me spending money on things that don’t seem worth it to me, is that I am not learning to adapt to what I want. I’ve said it before. Spending money is easy. Even easier, money that you don’t have, or is not yours. Just think of how many Americans are in credit card debt and think how many of those will spend the next 5 years paying it off. Not all debt is bad of course.
To look at it in another light, when you spend so much money on things to decorate your home and nothing on your dreams. At Least your house looks nice right? Up to you. What are you going to do with the next lump of money that comes to you? A raise at your job, bonus pay, 100 dollars from your grandma. Will it be spent, or invested? Investment is defined as: the action or process of investing money for profit or material result, OR a thing that is worth buying because it may be profitable or useful in the future OR, an act of devoting time, effort, or energy to a particular undertaking with the expectation of a worthwhile result. If you did not realize, THAT IS YOUR DREAMS. Do yourself a favor when you get home. Just walk in, close the door behind you. Think about what you have. Was any of this a need? Probably not, but I like how I live. It is “comfortable” ……that is the problem. Bangov Actual, out.
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