Libre Magazine

Well nowadays who isn’t, right?

Honestly, I don’t think anyone can afford to sit around with their feet up whilst twiddling their thumbs thinking of what to take on next.

“Oh my God, I’m sorry I forgot to get back to you because I was sooooo busy “. I mean how often do we not here this phrase.

This words seems to be the most commonly used word around nowadays. So when do we actually make time for ourselves or are we busy for that too? Yes it is a fact that we all work very hard at what we do and make it a point to never arrive late for work and or ever take a day off for unnecessary reasons. However, the one thing I wonder about the most is that the ” BUSY” life that we have chosen to live is at the expense of our personal lives and tends to end up affecting those a lot. Of course who doesn’t need money and that is the ultimate goal that we work towards to even try to earn more if in any way we can however what I have observed is that there is never enough money that one can have. The rat-race is always on to try to find out how to make more and more and more. The only thing now is that time for a healthy and happy family life is being compromised and heading down the drain. Why can’t we just be happy with a certain amount of money in life. Why do we have to ignore our valuable family time in order to go and head off to find out ways on how to make more money all the time? I think at least over 95% of people are in the same boat and it may be only that 5% or less that will ever admit that he/she is happy with as much as they have, which would be very surprising nowadays.

I don’t think that I know of anyone that would say they are very content, satisfied and grateful for what they have in their life? Take for example something like this. If it is one car a person has then he/she will try to aim to get another one. Most households own at least 2 cars nowadays. Even though he/she could manage with just that one car but it is just not good enough. There has to be one more at the least. Now in order to afford the second car (especially for a middle-class family) the wife may have to go out and find a job to help out with the extra expenses in the house hence the second new car, right? So now this is just the beginning of many tensions and stresses to follow. If there are younger children in the picture then the parents will have to arrange for a babysitter to take care of the children and that will now add on another expense just like that. Then the car may have been financed or leased and monthly car payments will be needed to be paid and car insurance also monthly without which a driver is NOT permitted to bring himself/herself onto the road. Now this is just one simple scenario that I thought to touch base on although there are many others. Some people are like shopaholics and have to hit the mall at least once or twice a week perhaps if not more and then overspending results because we ( as humans) just cannot window shop for long periods of time without buying anything new. It is just a force of habit and one that cannot be easily modified or altered.

Now this just happens to be one simple, common, everyday scenario amongst many others out there. So by having a working woman alongside the man in the household would result in less time spent taking care of the house and the kids. I don’t think that there is anything out there more rewarding then taking care of one’s family/ kids. This time is so special and so precious that passes us by with a blink of an eye. It is not comparable to anything out there and lost time cannot be brought back. I would think that instead of sitting and regretting things one day over such less family time spent in life, one should deeply evaluate and assess oneself and his/her needs and priorities in life. Don’t try to let this precious time get away so easily.

With everyone’s hectic work schedules these days and the stress that always gets the best of us, when do we actually get the time to enjoy those luxuries that we work so hard for? I mean more of our time nowadays seems to be spent outside of our homes and such little time actually being spent at home then when is there really that time to actually ” relax ” in the true sense of the word and how long does that relaxing time really last? Think about it!

Wouldn’t it be better if we all sat down and thought real hard at this situation as a whole and think of how we should start living within our means? Get rid of all those credit cards and debts and buy whatever it is that you need with cash only. Save yourselves the pain and agony. Why add to the existing debt already and end up paying double the price for an item using a credit card because chances are they you will not be able to make the full payment of that item in one shot so in the end credit card companies always benefit from our extra money and are extremely happy while we are grinding ourselves to the ground trying to make ends meet and it will always be that struggle to keep on top of things.

Last but not least, let’s try to get rid of all those issues and tensions that we have created for ourselves because I will tell you that no one else is to be blamed in the end for our own mistakes made than ourselves.