"Once upon a time, we were scared of the shopping malls. I remember taking different, and at times longer routes to avoid wasting time and money on my female partner. Sometimes, I'd get away with it but usually, I had to move into the Centrals, the Forums, the Garudas, the Phoenixes...you name it ! And that's how I wasted most of my slave-earned money.
But, these days, she's a lot different. She doesn't force me to go to those malls. She just takes my card and shops online ! How convenient !", says some guy, XYZ !
Such is the condition of the hu-man race. What's worse is that the condition is getting even more unsolvable with the passing days. She needs apparels, she's got myntra. She needs the next novel by her favourite author, she's got flipkart. She wants new offers to chose from, and snapdeal is right under her nose. She wants to eat, there's this tastykhana.com.
Now, the question to be asked is how. How the hell do we change the trend? The answer is simple. We can't. The marketers today are smarter than most of us are. After all, they are professional sellers and we aren't professional buyers. So, we lose the contest even before it starts. These marketers make shopping so bloody easy that we don't even think twice before entering those 16 digits and the CVV.
Psychologically speaking, credit card money doesn't really seem to be real money, probably because it isn't anyways. Therefore, we spend, only to realise later that we are broke for the month. And the funny part here is, that we do not make this mistake once. We repeat it every month. After all, we get nice bucks into our accounts at the end of every month. So, who cares !
Is there a solution to this? Oh hang on, do you see this as a problem, first of all?
Think about it. The solution, as always, lies within.
Such is the condition of the hu-man race. What's worse is that the condition is getting even more unsolvable with the passing days. She needs apparels, she's got myntra. She needs the next novel by her favourite author, she's got flipkart. She wants new offers to chose from, and snapdeal is right under her nose. She wants to eat, there's this tastykhana.com.
Now, the question to be asked is how. How the hell do we change the trend? The answer is simple. We can't. The marketers today are smarter than most of us are. After all, they are professional sellers and we aren't professional buyers. So, we lose the contest even before it starts. These marketers make shopping so bloody easy that we don't even think twice before entering those 16 digits and the CVV.
Psychologically speaking, credit card money doesn't really seem to be real money, probably because it isn't anyways. Therefore, we spend, only to realise later that we are broke for the month. And the funny part here is, that we do not make this mistake once. We repeat it every month. After all, we get nice bucks into our accounts at the end of every month. So, who cares !
Is there a solution to this? Oh hang on, do you see this as a problem, first of all?
Think about it. The solution, as always, lies within.
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