.priority - mine vs. yours.
went out for lunch with the gang (meaning mom and dad). a bad choice of day to be out for an ideal lazy stroll and sight-seeing of another kind in the chosen air-conditioned area. but dad insisted that i get my “upah” for helping out on the restoration of our garden that morning. haha yeah, it has been months since the grass were mowed and the shrubs were trimmed and the dead brown leaves were cut down from the several ‘macathuri’ palms that adorn corners of the lawn.
it’s sunday and all the main roads leading to our destination were crawling with one of many ozone-depletion-contributors aka vehicles. what are these people doing? why are they willing to be in the bothersome traffic when they can rest at home for the weekend? what drive them to buy, buy, buy? surely they cant be all dads with the intention of bribing their daughter. heh.
music get us moving. physically, mentally and spiritually. and i had this crave (and for that, it’ll usually fade away) for my own unlimited supply of music thus the MP3. a friend suggested me to get the sleek, orangy sony ericsson in-phone player + music transfer software. but then a parent said that that kind of gadgets are for the trendy (note:not for me, because i’m obviously not in that category). well, that was not the point. the mystery here is why we buy these objects that we don’t really need. a very experienced employee, who had and still works/deals with many contractors and supplier (who evidently earned a lot), shared a revelation with me. he said, from observation, that these prosperous people who undoubtedly can afford many of these trendy stuff own only the oldest model of mobile phone. okay, maybe not the oldest, but close.
i was in a particularly long queue in an outlet for health and beauty where i bought an adjustable gel arch supports for dad’s strained and tired feet which he had suffered for weeks. the store was bustling with people buying and looking and the air was humid as the air-conditioner couldn’t keep pace with the vast amount of body heat. two adorable kids were pestering their dad to get his attention for candies at the counter and a boy accidentally popped his balloon to the annoyance of his dad.
amid of all the chaos and crucial moments of children development, in the long line, in front of me, there’s a guy and a woman who was holding two bottles of a well-known-brand mineral water each.
now, if they are thirsty, why can’t they just buy a drink from the vending machine where they don’t have to queue and get to quench their thirst quicker and doesn’t contribute to the congestion in the store? if they wanted something fresh and nourishing, why cant they just get one from the supermarket where a variety choices of brand and double number of counters are available? and they didn’t come from around the corner of the mall to buy those branded mineral water because it’s a trendy thing to do, right?
or did they?
and what is it with walking around the mall or having lunch and leaving shades on top of your head? maybe they spend too much money on the branded shades that they can’t afford to buy hair-bands to keep their hair out of their face? or is it a trend too?
for the trendy, no doubt.
