Watch the movie Confessions of a Shopaholic (2009).

Write your reflection as to how you relate with

the main character of the movie in terms of spending habit.

“A girl in the green scarf” is a shopaholic. The movie Confessions of a Shopaholic (2009) is an
eye-opening movie for all the people having the condition that is the same to the main character. It is an
American romantic comedy film based on the first two entries in the Shopaholic series of novels by
Sophie Kinsella. Directed by P. J. Hogan, the film stars Isla Fisher as the shopaholic journalist and Hugh
Dancy as her boss.

People tend to be materialistic, find happiness in buying and buying for the nth time. Rebecca
Bloomwood is doing shopping in physical store and it is undeniable that she really bought a lot how
much more if is now a shopping that you can choose by just browsing in your phones effortlessly.
Nowadays, the application Shopee, Lazada, Zaful, and many other platforms of the marketplace that
makes shopping easier. We saw them as a person who spends too much and do not care about spending
money just to get the material thing that they want and someone who only finds happiness on material
things. I also have the application Shopee and Lazada that I also buy stuffs that I need as well as my
wants.

In their own perspective, shopping can make them happy and alive. I can’t deny that shopping
can make me feel so happy and alive also, but there is a big “but” in this kind of thing. A feeling of
happiness and being alive is what person must feel but not on this kind of way. Shopaholic means you
shop frequently, and you cannot already yourself in spending money. Being someone like this is really a
huge trouble, worst when you are spending too much that it reaches more than your limit of capability. I
don’t only give you problem but also will affect you and the people around you.

I know to myself that I am not like Becca, a shopaholic. I just shop when it is needed, I don’t
spend so much time for my leisure. I would rather find worth spending time and love for what I value
with a little bit of cost. I can say that I have this thing called “self-value”, I gave more for the things I
value and that is my family and loved ones. Maybe I would rather spend money for them to give extra
happiness, but not too much. It is because my Extracorporeal Self where my family included gives me
happiness and made me find my “self-worth”. Seeing them happy makes my heart full of happiness even
without the material things that they shop.

LEARNING ACTIVITY 2

After reading the article, I feel that I already knew my worth. I was being showered by unwanted
words, fallen and downed many time and being rejected. But reading this article made me
realized that I had accepted being showered and just ignore it, I fell so I stand up and I am being
rejected yet there are still people who find my worth. No matter what we’ve been through, we
are still us. I am still Jomar Catacutan who has a wonderful friends, loving special someone and
a beautiful family. This is me no matter how many flaws I have with me. There is no such thing
that can take away the fact that I am valuable and worthy by being me.

The story affects me in such a way that it increases my confidence and made my view to myself
positively. It increases my confidence about how worthy I am. It made my look to the positive
side of my life that despite of my flaws I am still me, a worthy person who doesn’t need the
permission of everyone to make my say that I am valuable.

I know I am worthy because I am me. I am worthy because I am not like others who tries to
imitate or copy other people rather I would stay be myself because I know that this is where I
can find my worth. This is how I found my worthy and how people I love, love me too.