It's funny how we can find something sensible in a fool's talk or find something great from a small situation. It's funny but it's actually one of the things I use to believe the saying "Everything happens for a reason" and that's totally true if we take our time to think deep on it. I had one of the experience, learning something great somehow.
It may not seem great to you reading this but from my life's perspective since that encounter, I think I stumbled upon something great that day. We may not know the use of a new knowledge until we are faced with a situation that calls for it in our brains. It happened to me and now, I can't keep it to myself. It's my first real talk here hehe.
Is it expensive or you can't afford it? This was a question I got from a seat partner I met some months ago during one of my travels. We had just met and sitting close to each other as we travelled to our different destination but I noticed he was into a skill I had been wanting to ask questions about so I asked to know his own cost.
I gave a small scream and replied, "Wow! That expensive? I think I'll pass." I was totally hoping to get a respond like you could get cheaper cost somehow but he gave me a reality check question, hitting me hard on the fact that I wouldn't have actually say it's an expensive skill if I had the money to pay for it. I was speechless.
A lot of times, people complain about how things are so expensive and somehow, some still go ahead to buy while some keeps waiting for a cheaper option or earn more money to get what they thought was expensive. Let's be honest, a billion dollar net worth individual can not say a 5 million dollar car is expensive, why is it like that?
He has a lot where that 5 million dollar will come out from, he won't see the need to check if he's even being scammed. But from a 5 million dollar net worth, that will look expensive but honestly, it's not the product that is expensive, it's on that individual who is not able to afford it yet. It's a hard truth that many myself included, will accept.
While there are things that are obviously expensive as the guy explained to me, they are actually expensive because we measure them to our financial strength and honestly, a lot of us make the mistake of limiting how much more we can earn in that time of pronouncing something "expensive". A product worth is totally on you.
Imagine if you had way more than you do now, won't you go for the car you've always seen as expensive? Or if you had more, would having a house of your own be too expensive to dream about? I'm pretty sure your response is a NO and I want to believe you understand what I'm trying to point out here. It's not to change your thought on spending wisely but to upgrade your thought.
Our reality should always be in our head so we don't let wishful thinking take us out. Things are expensive to you now is because you can't afford it. Instead of tagging that item as expensive, focus on upgrading your financial strength so what you thought was expensive will be just right in it's price tag because you can afford a lot of it.
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