Seasons, occasions, expectations and periodical events all add flavour and glamour to life. Have you ever stopped to imagine how monotonous, banal and entirely boring our short time on earth would be without certain periods to anticipate; without Fridays, for that TGIF feeling; without #December for the usual annual reunion, ecstasy and jollification?
Variation, they say, is the spice of life and #Christmas period variably brings forth much dining, wining, displaying and spending – a significant disparity from the normal January to November life. One is moved to wonder if people are issued permit to spend rashly only in December. One is equally moved to wonder if there is any justification for hustling, mortifying, saving, sacrificing and slogging for eleven months all to expend the results of the toils in the second half of the twelfth month, returning to factory setting in the next.
This epicurean tendency is a sad development in society. People buy clothes and gargets which they cannot afford just to look sophisticated in this period. Cars are purchased with borrowed money, holidays are faked, girlfriends are painfully gratified, ridiculous sums are spent on trivialities, mindless parties are staged, gratuitous donations are made in public places, ostentatious titles are taken, all to air flamboyance, all geared towards belonging; towards showing that you’ve not been left behind.
And in January people return to semi-empty shops, piled up debts, naggings, unpaid fees, broken housewares and fat bills. It takes some a month to recover, some a few more months, but some never do find balance, they simply stagger all year and then repeat same the next December. It takes resolve and willpower to break off from this siege of hurting yourself in order to please the world. It takes self-discipline to rise above this hedonistic lifestyle characterized by seeking and embracing momentary pleasure and shows, only to silently weep for months unending. No one is saying it is easy but why not employ some modesty this season? Why not spend on the very necessary and reserve more for long-term investments or achievements? Our Lord says in #Mathew 7:24-28;
"Therefore everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on the rock. The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house; yet it did not fall, because it had its foundation on the rock. But everyone who hears these words of mine and does not put them into practice is like a foolish man who built his house on sand. The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell with a great crash.”
In this season, I dare you to be different. I humbly charge you to spend only what you can pay for, to give what you can afford, and to hold the betterment of your tomorrow prime. God bless you.
Yours truly,
#ObinnaOrgazi
#ObinnaOrgazi
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