Just some ideas

I try to write more often, so not to lose my ideas, what I want to say .
Unfortunately I cannot do it very often. I come home from work too late and too tired. Only Saturdays give me some creative time. Another time, I lose unfortunately some of my thoughts, some topics of conversation.

Yesterday I was thinking: it is very interesting how somebody with enough money and power can twist your reality and basically feed you with wrong ideas and convince you that black is white and white is black! How many people after being introduced to credit cards started to live above their means, spending more than they have, more than they earn?

The whole society turned into consumers and spenders. Credit card, consumer cards, loans, loans, loans. They still spend. That’s why, probably, I just love to watch “Till debt do us part” program on TV. It’s very educational, shows us to what extent we can be reckless. Big time.
People have an ingrained habit to spend much more than they can afford in reality and do not even think twice about the consequences of overspending and indulging themselves.
They do not even give themselves trouble to stop and think first, to sit and calculate basic needs and availability of income to cover those needs before spending. And not to mix needs and wants, they are different.

Credit card is a crutch, you might need this crutch if you are in business, but in private life you just need common sense and a little bit of calculation, very simple. Credit became very easy, even if we do not have ready credit, we can go to daddy or mommy (even if mommy is 70 years old and still working to supplement needs of extended family).

I do not think, it is right. 70 years old women (men) should not work, they should have a rest from any necessity of earning their keeps; they have to enjoy their “golden years”. They had enough working. We have to use our own creativity and talents and simply find ways to earn more if you need more, or just do not buy stuff, if you do not have money. Simplify your life or earn more. It’s my opinion. Well, may be as s stupid immigrant, I just do not get certain things.
May be there are obligations to a certain life style present, prestige, etc, etc. What Joneses would say? How I can possibly use public transportation, when I need a car? We forget, that there always will be need for more money. The more we spend – the more we need thatgreen thing. Money, money, money.

People cannot relax; have fun, we always think about money and work, work, work. Extra hours, extra money. The more you earn, the more you spend, the more you need to earn.
New car, furniture, house, dress, trinkets, lots of them.
Life becomes too stressful, rest almost nonexistent. Even when we sit, we still tense and wired, ready to jump and run.
That’s why probably, medical profession so profitable in this country. We all have some kind of a problem, that needs regular visits with our medical cards to a specialist, who without even looking into our way of life, stress, background, financial and personal problems, having only 10-15 minutes to talk to us, because he has 10,20,30 more patients behind the door waiting. He will give us pills that suppose to successfully cure us. All kinds of pills: white, blue, green, yellow. Two in the morning, three in the afternoon. No, sorry, three in the morning, two in the afternoon. Then at night two more.
Side effects? Another pill. Headache? More pills. We have enough pills for everybody. We can even bring you pills home and if you forget to take, we can phone and remind you to take a pill. Isn’t it lovely?
Somehow doctors conveniently forgot that there are lots of time tested natural remedies, many very cheap and effective and with no side effects. No-no, that won’t do, we want quick fix and doctors willingly shower us with pills, injections, sometimes, tummy tuck, face lift, breast augmentation, liposuction, stomach stapling.
Quick fix, they can fix you permanently and forever,( like they fixed Michael Jackson, I still can not get over his death, such talent and such tragic fate).
But I lost my point. I just wanted to say, that while living among abundance of everything people loose certain ability of thinking and analyzing. Instead they take everything by its face value, not trying to be cautious, not using their brains, may be just looking for fun, for quick fix, easy way out, or may be just not paying attention. I do not know, why it happens that way. We do not ask question: What if? Only when something happens, we start looking for answers and ask questions, but it might be too late then…

In my old country people never had such terrible addictions, like addiction to food, to prescription medication. I think it’s so horrible and disgusting. People basically eat themselves to death and kill themselves with medications that suppose to cure, not kill! We have to start ask more questions and demand more answers and not to trust every professionally looking guy or girl with our valet or health and everything else.
But it’s just my reluctant immigrant’s opinion. You do not have to listen.