Many of us have trouble with being able to say
"NO" when we desire something.
We have been trained in this country to
"want what we want when we want it," and that
actually getting what we want is not only a right
but am expectation.
This is not healthy or realistic. To be done right,
things take time and patience....Rome wasn't built
in a day, and immediacy is a modern ill.
When we feel like we 'have' to buy something in
order to meet our needs, we tend not to be giving
any mature thought to what we are doing. There is
no intelligent analysis of motive, funds availability,
outcome, etc.
We will not crumble if we don't get our way.
We won't disintegrate if we don't react to every
impulse we suffer.
It's good to want things and not receive them...they
used to say it builds character. Maybe that's what
happened; for several generations we have given in to
every desire we have had. Doing without has not been
an option even considered.
We have been trained that to 'give ourselves' what
we want is a sign of success, of having made it, of being
capable and well-to-do. But most of us are not able to
afford such things as we buy; we are spending money
we don't have to impress or try and "keep-up-with"
The Joneses.
When we act fiscally irresponsibly, we are selling out
the reality of tomorrow for the illusion of today. Worse
still, we have become desensitized to the fact that this
is a problem!
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