Age and not growing up
I struggle to fit in with my friends now.
My close friends are my age.
And it's depressing to hear them.
Property, famous brands, and even personal financial strategy.
The bags and clothes they buy are getting more expensive.
I had to endure a 30-minute talk about $#@$#@ Louis Vutton? Prada? whatever! bags from an old schoolmate/friend.
This from a woman who was environmentally-conscious from her school days.
I got fed up as she wasn't noticing my glazed-over eyes and went ahead to irritate her; how can she justify spending that kind of money on this foreign big-name Brand, when she used to save the environment and used recycled bags?
This was her answer. I don't buy Gucci, as they were the brand that started using the animal fur.
Speechless.
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Example No 2.
My colleague, yes the US trip schoolmate that is making me suicidal, talked about this amazing concept of how if we saved $1 everyday from birth, we would be millionaires by age 60.
I was originally happy, to have curbed my tongue at yet a another tactless comment from her, not 5 minutes ago.
My self-limit broke, and I asked her; if the current you was to go back in time to your teenager self, and say the very same thing, do you think your teenager self would have listened?
She was fairly honest; she admitted No.
THEN? THEN? I raged internally.
What's this rubbish of wanting to save more when you were younger? She, while in school, blew her entire holiday-job savings on a Jean-Paul-Gautier bag.
(A thousand dollars 10 years ago, was a lot of money.)
Self-delusion? Fantasy?
I just find it hilarious. And kinda comtempible.
My close friends are my age.
And it's depressing to hear them.
Property, famous brands, and even personal financial strategy.
The bags and clothes they buy are getting more expensive.
I had to endure a 30-minute talk about $#@$#@ Louis Vutton? Prada? whatever! bags from an old schoolmate/friend.
This from a woman who was environmentally-conscious from her school days.
I got fed up as she wasn't noticing my glazed-over eyes and went ahead to irritate her; how can she justify spending that kind of money on this foreign big-name Brand, when she used to save the environment and used recycled bags?
This was her answer. I don't buy Gucci, as they were the brand that started using the animal fur.
Speechless.
************
Example No 2.
My colleague, yes the US trip schoolmate that is making me suicidal, talked about this amazing concept of how if we saved $1 everyday from birth, we would be millionaires by age 60.
I was originally happy, to have curbed my tongue at yet a another tactless comment from her, not 5 minutes ago.
My self-limit broke, and I asked her; if the current you was to go back in time to your teenager self, and say the very same thing, do you think your teenager self would have listened?
She was fairly honest; she admitted No.
THEN? THEN? I raged internally.
What's this rubbish of wanting to save more when you were younger? She, while in school, blew her entire holiday-job savings on a Jean-Paul-Gautier bag.
(A thousand dollars 10 years ago, was a lot of money.)
Self-delusion? Fantasy?
I just find it hilarious. And kinda comtempible.