Considering the title of this article of mine, to question life and its existence is not good; but it's best sometimes to ponder on living in this modern era. Is it better? There are certainly lots of issues out there that one has to think about. Economy wise, getting along with people wise, job wise and many more. It is said easier to be living in the era of our late grandma and grandpa. But is it, really? What about the war(s) that they had survived? Certainly not easy to get through, though the demands of life truly were simple back then.
In this modern era, there are certainly lots of new problems arising. First of all, the cost of living is getting higher by the day. People are becoming wealthier by the second and by the minute, and the cost of living and social expectations are definitely on the rise. You see unnecessary grand weddings being held, elaborate engagement functions, birthday celebrations and many more. True, if the argument of "If you have the money to do it, why not." Right. But sociologically, who are we trying to impress? Ourselves or others or just for the sake of having the underlying and understatement sentencing deep down that "Hey, I do have the bucks for it!" I was sitting around with this friend of mine days back and we were lamenting of life in general and the expectations nowadays. Life has been different truly. I see a simple celebration being mocked at when I went for some private functions, and to me, "what the...?" Why are they behaving that way, these people? I went to this particular wedding dinner of this particular colleague of mine the other day and this guy whom is a friend of the groom told me that to nab a babe, you need the source. As in money. To give her a lavish wedding, nice car to boot, a big daddy of a house, and the woman or babe will stick. Ewwww. I simply attest to that. I wouldn't ever want to be a victim of that kind of circumstance, really. It really would be something depressing for me knowing that whenever my pocket runs dry, my woman would fly!
Another thing that I have been observing all this while is the fact that many people nowadays in this modern era are hiding behind their "disguised" social status. Or in other words, they pretend to be humble and disguise their wealth. This is my personal observation. You get the real rich and showing off type, and the wanting to show off and having the money, but wanting to desperately giving the false impression that they are poor and not having the bucks for it. Like I have this particular guy friend who is always scrimping and saving up but he actually has lots of money. I mean a lot, alright? Like 100K savings in the bank or so.
And he is acting like he is going to lose his 100K tomorrow and is always happy to sit for a free meal or go out for a free outing. A miser? Not to him. For him, he is just playing it safe and saving for a rainy day. At the same time, he goes all "waaaah to this and waaaah to that" whenever someone is having a lavish house or bike etc. Anything of wealth. He would say "I'm not like that, I'm poor, I feel so insecure." Where in truth is that he could definitely afford it, but he just doesn't want to reveal or show. Maybe psychologically, he has been deemed to condemn himself to total numbness and humbleness that he can't even rise to the occasion? Maybe and perhaps. Last I heard from him is that he is going to lavishly splurge on this big bungalow house and a car to boot for his lovely wife. Just the two of them. And he is saying he is poor...DUH! I feel funny about that.
Maybe some people are just brought up that way. To only look as others as rich, boastful and classy, but never them. But when they have something called a luxury, they will say that they go through the hard way, or that those are just budgeted items. LOL to that. I feel funny and wanting to scratch my head all of a sudden. Just a thought of mine. So if he calls himself poor, then what am I? A pauper? Hmmmmmm. We can't really blame these types of persons. Perhaps the demands of everyday life and personal memories including the way they are brought up have changed their mindset about wealth and novelty. This is where I would say, the "novelty has worn off". You see people looking down at you when you have something cheap and comfortable, but when someone splurges their wealth, you would say, "that's my hero". Funny life. Or perhaps, the stresses of being surrounded by the expectations of life and people, hmmmmmmmmm??
