The
Mania – MUST YOU HAVE IT????!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The crazy crave for that new item that just hit the block does not
just stop, we want it so badly we would go hungry and suffer our flesh for a
non-living thing that does not care if we exist, we adore their look, we
embrace the fact that these items have the ability to upgrade our status, so
don’t care how many hills we have to climb and any mountain we have to blitz to
get these latest bags, shoes, clothes, phones, cars and so on.
The total price of the items of some people’s wardrobe is the same
amount needed to send ten students to any college in the world. Is it that
people are losing their minds including me over the latest item that is highly
being shopped for around the world? The irony of the whole thing is that, the prices
of these new items are high, and we really don’t have the purchasing power to
get them, a times they just find their way in our budget when we do not have
any of them in our mind, some people truly don’t have the money, but
immediately they get the resource they pursue them, and neglect the important
things they are supposed to cater for. People are always pushing the act of
saving forward, we keep on saying these to ourselves, “I will save later”, and
this latest item has to be bought now or never.
Is it compulsory that when everyone is taking coffee we must also
have one? Why don’t you just settle for a cup of tea or even water? It always
gets to everyone when everybody around us is doing something, or using a particular
item, and we’re not in the same category as they are, it gets to me too, you
just want to buy that “new kind of pants” so you don’t feel left out, before
you get to that party you make sure you’ve bought a pair of “the most talked
about shoe”, the only good about what is in vogue is that it helps us shop,
especially when we have the money and we’re totally clueless about what to buy
and not to buy, aside from that, we’re just using a pair of scissors to cut
through our pockets, smashing our bank accounts against the wall.
There are some expressions
that are made without a word been said, with the way a face stares at you, you
will know if you’re wanted in a particular place or not. Well every now and
then the approval of people around us seems to matter a lot whether we care or
not, at the end of the day it will still get to us whether good or bad. There
is nothing like being recognized by everyone, we get the “LOOK” that upgrades
us and shows we have finally arrived. I remember when I wore the latest fashion
items, some new pant that was of high quality, a nasty-cool grey shoe with a
cool shirt, and I held a cool handheld device which I never stopped using on or
at least tweeting on, then all of sudden I got the look, the one you can only
get when you do something remarkable.
There is now this new “hype” over cars and jeep, the boys want to
have cars and the men want to turn their cars into jeeps at all costs, they
don’t want to know what it takes to get it they just want now or never. Well
there is always this look you get when you now driving a car, or when you have
moved up from one car to another or from a car to a jeep, we can’t have enough
of that look.
There is this proverb that says “if a child is trying to put his
hand into fire and you are holding him back all the time, and he still refuses
to stop, let him try it then he will learn his lesson”. There are times people
take their time out to warn us about the things we go crazy over, things we try
to prove we can’t do without. Actually we can do without them. In the long run,
we finally learn our lesson that we can actually do without a tablet, we will
not die if we don’t ride a jeep, and we can still breathe if we don’t buy that
shoe, we may say no but actually yes we can! We can exist without them!
In motivational
seminars, books and so on we are told that we should determine what we want in
life that we should not let other factors or any form of change determine how
we live our lives. The things that we see that’s in vogue seem to shape our
lives, some people who do not like tight clothes they go get skinny jeans, (the
jeans do not fit some people’s shapes), some people do not like holding
anything for too long that’s as big as their as palm now they own a tablet or
some smart phone that’s really big. I thought with the advancement of
technology things like mobile phone were meant to get smaller? Let’s not allow
these fashionable items determine our lives, we should learn to live by our
taste, style and pocket size.
There is nothing wrong improving your taste if it’s bad, like I
used to have poor taste in combining clothes, and there is nothing wrong trying
to be an over achiever or being ambitious, hey! That’s no excuse to go
overboard trying to do what’s “in”. You’re who you say want to be.
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