Yes we all have heard it over and over again. Its Love that makes the world go around, not experienced that myself I think I would stick with rather the more accepted version of this line and go on the record and say its definitely 'Money that makes the world go around'
I was born to the average income earning man - my Dad, he tried his level best to put on the fanciest, 'brand-iest' and latest stuff on my back, buy sparkling shoes, all the crayons in the world a girl could have and so many dolls I remember dismembering them with some psychotic pleasure - creepy I know. Now today when he is retired and not so much in his financial position to let say 'buy me stuff' things though don't feel different, they feel restrained. Now I have a fixed pocket money and have to get by the month with it.
It doesn't really help when you have friends who want to throw money at the most insane reasons of all - Lets just go out they all repeat. You mentally calculate how much you can swing to cover your hide without looking like a scum in front of your own friends. In the end you decide you'd take the public bus home for the coming week then a rikshaw so maybe you could save money after all.
I have done it - I have gone out with friends and actually ordered desert. No I mean JUST desert cause yeh I couldn't swing for the meal in the fancy/we-r-too-sophisticated-to-serve-you-big-portions restaurant and my pride won't have me asking for money. It kinda gets tiring, we really don't have to go out 3 times a week now - do we? Food is not all, sometimes its a movie or a birthday gift.
It best when you go out shopping with girls. No I cannot afford a 2k worth of sandals! No I can't buy the 1k worth of jewelery - r u kidding me they r so tiny I can't even see them! You have to balance between No-I-don't-wanna-sound-like-a-loser and your pride. Its not easy- mostly it gets to your nerves.
I had/have a frenemy not sure where we stand now - He is all abt brands now, so yeh you earn, I don't - You can go ahead and talk abt brands I can't even pronounce, if that makes you feel like a man - I am really sorry. I know people who would gift their partners some expensive stuff and in return their partners would gift them in more expensive stuff and next time they would tempt the scales even more - I wonder where it would stop, probably when one of them would try to buy the moon.
Its not like I am poor or anything, I own a laptop, a cellphone, go to an okay university, live in my own house but I just have a huge problem with people who just want to spend money over and over, throw it, rub it in your face that they own it.
Money Money Money - its not all, is it?
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