So this week I had decided to purchase an IPhone 3gs from the Apple store. After I did my research I realized it wasn’t going to happen as stated in a previous blog post. At first I was upset, annoyed and finally furious. Why couldn’t I have the shiny new IPhone? It’s accessable and I don’t have to carry around a phone and an mp3 player plus all the other gadgets that the IPhone could replace.
Then I took a step back, stopped my whining and started thinking. I just bought a new phone within the past couple months. I got it because i knew I could make it accessable. I did the research, browsed Ebay, checked for deals on other websites and ultimately purchased my Samsung BlackJack II. Since purchasing the phone I haven’t done much with it to make it the accessable phone I knew it could be. Pure laziness.
I realized i was being childish. I don’t need a $400 phone when I need to be working on my credit and savings. I don’t NEED the phone because i have one that’s in perfectly good working order.
I had lived for so long on a low income that when I started working in Vegas I got way too obsessed with just buying things when the whim hit me. If it broke, I got a new one, if I couldn’t find it I got a new one, if I didn’t like it I got a new one. I realize now that isn’t how things work. I should be greatful for the things I do have. When I want something I’m not going to deny myself that thing but I sure will think harder about it before i go out and buy it.
I just wish it hadn’t taken me this long to figure out.
