Picture this; your getting ready to go to work, eat lunch, go shopping, pay tuition, or whatever it is you're doing...and you look inside your wallet to find NO money. Immediately you check your account and there's little to nothing in there. You start to go into panic mode, wondering what your going to do, and it finally it hits you dead on the nose...you walk outside to find tons of green. You walk up to any tree and start grabbing money, $1's, $5's, $100's. Knowing that no matter how much you take, the tree will always reproduce more, you relax...Ha ha! Wouldn't this meet every ones financial needs? I sure know it would meet mine and solve all my financial problems. Too bad that we have to work for our money, some maybe born into money, but for the majority of the population, we have to slave and no matter how hard we work for our money, it just doesn't ever seem to be enough. We're always taught that in order to make decent money one needs to get an education but, in order to get enrolled in classes, you need money, and an education these days is not cheap. Fortunately i have been lucky, my dad payed for my schooling. According to a BBC News article, "6 out of 10 single people said they have at some point in their life suffered a financial crisis." I know that I myself have not been in a "financial crisis" quite yet, but I do have debt and know what it's like to have most of, if not all of my money go to bills. If it's not paying my credit cards (dang that Nordstrom), rent, car payment/insurance, mortgage etc, it always goes to something else and I just can't seem to get ahead. And it doesn't help that I LOVE to shop, you don't understand the feeling I get when I buy something new... mmm.. its awesome, well to some degree :)
We're taught at a young age that the women stay home and raise their children while the husband is out working providing for his family. I have always known that the role the men play is huge but haven't really grasped what it would feel like to be the main supporter until I hit my mid 20's. I'm at the point in my life where I want to get married and have my own family, and I certainly don't want to enter in a marriage with debt, so I'm trying my hardest to get out of debt and fast. It seems though, that no matter how hard I try, or how many payments I make, I just don't make enough to even support myself; which isn't good. Now, if I'm feeling like this, can you imagine just how a man must feel knowing what he has to do someday? Being the main provider can be very rewarding I'm sure, but it's also stressful; not being able to pay all the bills, not being able to buy that fancy house, or even afford a family trip...it could be very discouraging. Now granted, I'm not of the male gender, and don't have to worry about being the main provider, but as of right now being 25 is hard, especially providing for myself. I have wants and needs for myself and it's so hard to see others who can just go out and buy, buy, buy when I know I have BILLS. I come from a family that has always been well off and where money isn't an issue, but when I became an adult my dad told me that since I got into debt, it's my responsibility to get out of it. At times I want to just scream at him for not helping me, but that would be too easy; and besides, it's not his mess its mine. I need to know what its like to get into debt, and how it feels to get myself out without any help.
I hope that in my entry I'm able to convey that, to anyone who is having financial issues, you're not the only one. If you're not feeling like you don't make enough, you're not the only one. I will be the first to admit that I have these feelings at times and it's not easy. If life was easy then we'd all be writing about what we can do to mess up, right? As long as our intentions are good, the Man upstairs will guide us the rest of the way. Life isn't fair, life isn't easy, but its what we do and how we deal with it that makes us appreciate what we have.
Courtesy of Ash
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