Transcendence: Limitations and Possibilities

MONEY

(SPEECH)

As we live, we make different meanings to things that give essential roles in our
lives for different reasons and purposes. We all have daily necessities as a human and it is
our nature to ask for much and also spent more than we have, just like several people who
have the desire and wants to be in a situation wherein they will be labelled as privileged
people that majority looks up high because of it. One of the things that greatly affect us on
how we function is money; money is the basic and number one need and commodity that
help people to run their lives.

In order to live the make out of our life, we are not new to the saying that we should
be meticulous when it comes to money. We need to have the discipline to manage it and
spent it for the things that makes sense, but sometimes since that we have our own wants
we cannot help to follow it over the needs. I remember a certain instance in my life where
did not think about what future may holds and buy the things I desire like new clothes,
shoes, and the guitar I really want with all the money that I have. These things can wait, but
since I wanted it I did not think about the next day and spent it all. Then, I just remember
that I still need to save some for my daily expenses and my school allowance. In that
instance, I really struggle for a month because of my buying impulses and bear with the
food I eat and I even bought a sandwich in school because I don’t have enough money to
buy my snacks and brunch at the school canteen. With this happened, I told myself that I
should taste my own medicine for not knowing the limitations I supposed to follow.

That is one of epic and ironic happening in my life happened to me, to overcome my
impulses in buying I change my mind set that I need to focus on my priorities and the
things that I need over the things that I just want. With that, I also realized to save for later
and spent wisely with the money I have. Now that I have learned my lesson from that
struggle, I now divide my money based upon my expenses and if there are spare money
that’s left that is the money I will spent on the things I want, so what happened back then
will not going to happened again. The experience made me into someone who is very
particular with managing the money and budget I have; as one of the people who’s in the
stage of maturity I decided to spent wisely so that it would cost me productivity.

To those listeners that experience the same thing as mine, I just want you to know
that self-discipline is one of the things that we should develop. In a way that when we have
the discipline we are able to function with a sense of purpose, we cannot possibly lose track
over something. This not only applicable in managing money and other commodities, but it
is also applicable as to the other things that we do in life. We need to be aware and have the
knowledge to set limitations and calculate possibilities because life is simple form the very
beginning this turns to be so complex because of the decisions and mindset that we
instilled at the very end of the day.