So I’ve noticed how people buy things here in the U.S. Not just skim through, or take a look, but we buy things. We like to buy the most usable items…. NOT.. and just throw them in the house, and whenever we need them, we hysterically exclaim “I have it but I can’t find it.”

Today, I would like to talk about money management. I want to talk about the fact that people spend so much money that they don’t have because of all this credit card dillema, and loans.

Why do we buy things we don’t need ?

Let me tell you this. I was told that, we, Americans, like to buy things we don’t need, with money we don’t have, to impress people we don’t know. Is there any more accurate quote than this ? I doubt it. This nails it. We’re such a jealous society that copies each other and have no originality anymore. If the person with originality has class and power, their originality becomes imitated. On the other hand, if it’s the originality of a person with no higher class or business value, he or she are called names and kicked out of the society.

We buy things to fulfill a satisfaction need. We feel down, so we eat, or shop. We eat or shop. That is all we do when we are down. But we never realize that the more ‘down’ we feel, the more we shop, thus, the MORE ‘down’ we feel the next time something happens ! Skimming becomes not so satisfactory, so buying things starts working. Shopping to the point where you have no cash on you, and you load up your credit card, you have nothing but headache because of your debts, and HOW DO YOU FORGET AND COVER YOUR DEBT THOUGHTS ? BY SHOPPING FOR EVEN MORE ITEMS !!!!!

There is temporary happiness, and perminant happiness. We do things in a certain way because we are designed to make our selves happy, but due to work and school and not being able to see our friends, that stress load gets higher. We look for little things that make us temporarily happy. We shop. We buy things we don’t really need, but desire or want. We start buying things because we could. Instead of a huge family update, like having a child, or getting married type of joy, these little things are what keep us alive when these big events aren’t around. It’s depression.

We have to work on our problems. We need to secure and use money effectively. If you have a dollar today, you probably won’t tomorrow. Save it. After years, you will need the money saved. The things you would’ve bought with that money could worth nothing but a little emotion attached self rightiousness. All missing would be the cash. Shop when you do something you set as a goal and achieve that goal, and make your self proud. That’s when you should get your self a gift or two. Maybe three, since you deserve it, not because you’re so depressed you just need to cover your depression for a day or two rather than solving the real problem.

Stay real, work hard, play harder,

Much love to everyone, thanks for reading, please share.

Apo Avedissian

The worse the economy, the happier the people. Hi there, it’s been a while since the last time in which I posted a blog. I’ve been meaning to post some new articles but time has been my worst enemy. I’ve noticed a lot of “deadening” around town as the economy stays the way it is now. People aren’t as hyper as they used to be. People aren’t as excited as they used to be. People are just back to the pure essence of humanity. Good-hearted human-beings.

When ever people lose their materialistic items, they become clearer about their intentions and more of their ‘good’ side comes out. People become ‘real’.

Not a lot of people are happy in this world. This world is built on such a system that not a lot of people are happy, and not a lot of people are sad as well. Most of us fall in the middle, whether you consider that fortunate or not.  You might write a comment back to me saying that you know a lot of sad people, or happy. Either way, my reply to you is that it all depends on the way we define happiness and sadness in our lives. Some of us consider getting a hug happiness, while others look for cars and luxurious materialistic items to be happy, or at least THINK they’ll be happy. The poor dreams of becoming rich. Not a lot of the poor will transform into rich people but some have and still do. These people end up with a lot of mental problems. By that, I do not necessarily mean “going crazy” even though some actually do. I just mean that they have so much to worry about now that they had no idea about back when they were poor. Being rich doesn’t provide you with happiness, in fact it takes away from your happiness count. You’re no longer social as much as you are thinking business. You’re no longer friends with people because they’re friends, but because they’re FUTURE CLIENTS. That, alone, can cost you your bestfriends, relatives, and possibly all of your family and friends as well.

The happier the people around you are, the more sad they are deep inside. Their smiles cover their thoughts and pain, and in their mentality, heal them too. Whenever a friend tells you a joke, smile. The only reason someone would want to tell you a joke is either because they want your attention, or they want to see you smile. So, go ahead and smile, you’ll make them happy either way.

You’ve probably heard this about a million times before, well maybe a little less, but they say that money can’t buy happiness. I agree. Money buys you everything but emotions. Buy the best things in life and you’ll get over them the day after, maybe the month after, if not, then years after, but you eventually will do that and miss the emotional part of life. We were born to express and release emotions. Get rich, make your money, but please, I beg you, stay good.

Much love,

Apo Avedissian