Sometimes I feel most comfortable when I'm out with my colleagues and close-close friends. I don't feel like we're poles apart. And for many hours, I can forget that the world is made up of huge disparities. Look at the newspapers every Sunday. There's always a millionaire featured. Check out Channel E on Sundays. Forbes' 20 supermodels/celebrities/hip hop singers who made bank. These people seem like they live on another planet and I could forget that they exist the moment I close that newspapers or switch off the television. The truth is ... personally I know of people who are so rich. Perhaps not as rich but rich enough to spend thousands on bags almost every month.
There's really a difference between being in Orchard and being in the suburbs. I feel rich when I'm in the suburbs but really poor when I'm in Orchard. Almost every one is carrying a branded bag. Or drives a super-branded car. Walk in Ngee Ann City or Paragon and branded shops are filled with branded people just looking for something to catch their fancy enough to flash their branded cards.
I don't have that. I'm so poor compared to these people. What's a hundred to them? On the other hand, a hundred is a lot of money to me. Money is power, I believe that. Money doesn't buy one happiness but without money, one can't ever be happy. Because let's be realistic here, money buys a whole hell lot of stuff which without, would make your life a miserable one. And I'm not talking about things we want, I'm talking about things we NEED.
I should learn to live my middle income life. No doubt the future looks really sunny bright, I should not be thinking of living a life that belongs to the future. I should live my life now as it is. I should learn to accept that I belong to the middle-income group and not think of all the branded bags, shoes and branded everything else. Life would be happier that way. So well, the definition of happiness is to be contented with what I have. It may not be the most stunning, it's still comfortable.
Is it too late to make amends and change my life now?
