122309 Wednesday

GREED FILLS THE EMPTY HOLES IN THE HEART

Humans are disgusting.

I cannot believe how we have evolved into such a greedy consumer infested world.

Yesterday I followed my aunt and Mom to this warehouse clearance sale that they were having for Christmas. House hold items like curtains, pillow sheets, bed sheets and many more were going for almost up to 70 percent in discounts. It was by far one of the craziest scenes that I have seen in my life. Literally everyone was scrambling for everything. It was like the items were a naked Beyonce and the consumers were the horny men that we are, scrambling to get a hold of that black chocolate.

Multiple Beyonces man handled

It was horrible. As we enter the shop, we saw a huge line on our left. We thought perhaps this was the queue for the cashier. It turned out to be that that queue was only for the trolley. Mom had to wait a good 20 minutes for it, for a trolley . .

Ugly sight

As I walked around, I saw grown up people behaving in the ugliest manner - People just throwing things around because it was sale ; Things they picked up and did not like was thrown across without a care. I overheard a young teenager share in angst her point to her younger sister. "Just because its a sale, it does not give them the right to throw things around." Well at least I take comfort in the fact that there is still hope for my generation growing up with a little direction.

Curtains, Bed sheets and Pillow opened from individual packages and thrown around

It got me thinking that perhaps half the people in here probably did not need the things that they were buying. They might have just decided to get the things because it was on great sale. That is how most of us are now today. There are so many things that we do not need but we still get them for whatever reason or excuse. It shows how greedy we are. How uncontented we are with the things that we already have. We forget to give thanks that we already have enough.

One of many aisles that were completely cleaned out

The queue for the cashier was another pain the ass. There were only three counters open and probably 200 hundred people lining up to get their items. The queue for it was a good 50m in each direction. I started queuing at 4.15 and by 5:00, I only moved 3 aisles up. It was that long and that slow. The time that I took entirely to queue up was sufficient for me to reflect on my life for the past 20 years, plan for my future, think about the names of my kids, compose a song and think of what I'll do when I am 80. I also managed to count the number of dandruff on the head of the person in front of me. 1, 070,459 to be exact. I had to reset a couple of times because it kept falling down to her shoulders.

Size of one aisle - I moved three in 45 minutes

Well, the whole experience gave me a new insight on the behaviors of humans. We are ridiculousy greedy and we constantly crave for new things even though we have sufficient already. We buy things just to feel the need of contentment even though we do not need them. I learn that it is going to take a whole lot from us to change but there is still hope that one day we will be happy with just the clothes on our body and the roof over our heads.

I've also learned that it isn't easy to change and to be that just yet. All this requires time and effort to change which we humans will learn one day - but not yesterday. I shamefully admit that I was just like the crowd ; Buying something for the sake of just buying something.



I got myself a MEGA MILKSHAKE MACHINE !

I am sorry.

I am disgusting.