Spending

I remember a time I used to love to go shopping. Now, I dread shopping like the plague. It doesn't matter how bad I want something I refuse to buy it. Before I pick something up in the store I ask myself, Do I need this?" Somehow the answer is always no.

Dad not having a job has killed any desire to shop for myself. Our family simply doesn't have the money. I try to save the little bit of money I've made so that my mom doesn't have to give me money next year at college.

I'm not trying to whine or complain here, it's just the truth. The other truth is that I am going to come out of college with a disgusting amount of debt.

I guess that college is a necessary debt. Everyone I talk to seems to think it's going to pay off. I sure hope it does. The way Pap and Coach Palko talk a good paying job is just around the corner after I graduate college. Sadly, Pap still thinks I want to be an accountant. Truth be told I'm not sure what I want to be.

I don't want to be some CPA and sit crunching numbers for thirty years. I'd love to be a writer, but we all know that isn't the most prosperous field. I would like working with the CIA or FBI doing forensic accounting, but getting into that career would also be difficult. The last idea that sounds enticing is a comedian. Heck, I find myself to be pretty funny and so do most of my peers. That'd be a hell of a life, cracking jokes and making money from it. (Again, not the most practical.)

If there is one thing I've learned about money in the past four years it's that it really isn't everything. The Beatles said it best with their song "Can't Buy Me Love." It really can't. I've found the importance of money and I've learned to prioritize my spending. I could buy myself a shirt or some new shoes, or I could save my money for something more important...something like taking a pretty girl to lunch and to the movies. That is money well spent. 


NP: Can't Buy Me Love- The Beatles