Easy Come, Easy Go
Every day presents us with the opportunity to learn and unlearn certain things. It was with this in mind that I decided to find out what the durability of a product or service means to some people and why. Our understanding of durability is the longevity of a product or service that is how long it can serve us and actually serve us satisfactorily.
In this day and age we admit the cost of living has gone up and commodities are becoming quite expensive. In order to cut costs, most people have opted for certain strategies. The market as it is now has increasingly been supplied with goods, both cheap and expensive, and that is a good thing. I appreciate that. My concern, however, is this: How durable are those products.
Bringing it closer home, nowadays we get shoes, clothes, handbags and other accessories at different prices. Of course some are expensive and some are cheap. I carried out a simple survey with a group of 7 ladies who had meager incomes to find out which items they would go for. All the ladies appreciated the good looking and expensive clothes, shoes and handbags and they wished they could purchase them. However the purchases they made were from the cheap new good looking items arguing they were affordable and it made them look smart. Six ladies made the purchases. One was hesitant to buy them and preferred to invest in the expensive ones.
Two months down the line, a question was posed to the group and the question was, “How many still satisfactorily enjoy the services of the items they had bought?” The answer was alarming because five out of the six who had bought the cheap things were no longer using them saying that their quality was bad and this meant they had to make new purchases. Indeed they enjoyed themselves for a short time. The one who choose to buy the expensive one was still enjoying the services if the items she had bought.
So this got me thinking. Cheap is actually expensive. Why spend on something that is not quality, over and over again instead of saving up and buying something quality in the long run? However, not all expensive things are quality and that is why we are encouraged to window shop before we make the actual purchases of what we require. Ironically, this is a lesson we all know, but for most us developing the discipline required to attain this is actually a challenge. One encouraging thing is that we can always get the best if we pay the price for it.
The Bible tells us of an instance when Jesus turned water into wine. In this wedding ceremony, the wine had run out and all they had was water in the jars. At that point, the water did not mean anything much to them but when time came for Jesus to turn the water into wine, He did it and it was the best wine served in that wedding. That taught us that we can use what we have to obtain what we do not have but want to acquire it. With the money we have, we can save it up and when we get enough we can get what we want. Hurry hurry, someone said has no blessing and another added that delay is not denial. With a target, commitment, patience and discipline, we can go far and of course having committed our work to God.
God wants the best for us and in fact He can provide in many ways, but one of the things I have come to learn is that sometimes, we have to put some initiative in what we want and He will bless the work of our hands. Therefore ladies, nothing can stop us from looking and feeling good about ourselves if we identify what we want, see how much it costs and work towards getting it without having to get financially stretched. I wish you all the best in this endeavor.
God bless.
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