Time to stop and think!!!

I would like to start by asking those who love nothing but a golden spoon or those who care too little about life to please not read this cause it might offend them

I always looked at life as a journey that one has to live through at each stage..."LIVE IN THE MOMENT" that is what i thought life is and I belived money wealth etc.. fell around this and somehow worked out for the best and I still believe in the former to a great extent after all "TODAY IS A GIFT that is why it's call THE PRESENT right" but somehting happend last evening....

It was zorastrian new year and mine first away from my grany's cooking (sad).. So anyway i decided to cheer my self up and go shopping.. I was anywyas runing out of supplies.. (its been 4 motnhs here and i had brought stock to last only 2)..

Moving down each ile of the super market my hand automatically went for "BRANDS" that i would not think twice about picking back home in India and everytime i picked it up I saw my self returning it to the shelf.. NO its not that i cannot afford them now nor are they so frightfully expensive that they dont fit my budget but suddenly each price tag seemed heavier than before... SO i picked up a local bisuct brand (which tasted well let me not add the adjective) simple floride toothpaste as opposed the the gels that used back home.. and so on...and i stil ended up spending AED120 (INR 1400 aprox)

Back home when i was alone i began to think there must be thousands of people like me who have never been aaway from home or never have been denied anythign by their parents and thought what pain they might have gone through if they were not well off...I am not syaing i was born in a kings palace.. my parents also had their limitations and I am amazed how they never said a thing about my buyig habits..

What i am trying to put across is no parent is going to say "no" and we as children take advantage of that "Muumy I want that, or dad how can you by that for me its so LS, what will my friends think" not once do we stop and think wow he has bought me this something that would have made him have to work 2 more hours or hear his boss sware at him for a whole 15 minutes... We never see that do we??

Today i know how it hurts to spend that 1 dirahm extra to have fun and after spending it i think was it worth it or could i have done it in a better manner..

I am not saying one should stop having fun and be a miser NO that is not my message, My message is live in the present, You have one life live it to the fullest... but there are times when one can do away with something... and i say this to everyone Tomorrow even if i have ZILLIONS AND ZILLIONS OF ruppess or AED or dollars i would rather teach my child to value 1 out of those Zillions than to spend them all...Yes being a parent i want him to have the best in life and I will die but give him the best of everything but what parent am I if I cant make him appritiate hard work...

Yes there is another school of thought that if my parents cant give me all the happiness then they not doing their duty.. fair enough I do not disagree on that part... you are their flesh and blood and you deserve everything they can dish out to you but then are you doing your duty of understnading them.....

Anyway when you are alone in a land filled with lovely ladies asking you to spend that 1 dhiram more you need to put your brakes on suddenly and think..... And I do look back and see that most of things that i demanded back home i actually did not really need......I have friends who demand stuff whihc would take them years and years to buy if they were i ntheir fathers shoes and for waht for passing an exam or for gettign into B school.. when you young you envy such peopel and say "Man I wish my dad could give me that" but now i think back and say man that was so stupid...

Its time to stand up and think!!! and take responsibilities for actions to think twice before SPLURGING before throwing demands...

I appologise to all readers if my thoughts offend them or their beliefes.. and I am one for always having fun and I believe one can have fun with right company no matter where and how.. You do not need to go to a 7 star hotel for dinner to have fun if you have freidns who like you for the way you are you can have fun even at the dirtiest of places.....