The Illusion of Making Ends Meet
Making Ends Meet is basically a neurotic shell game whereby the consumer tries to balance positively their income to their expenses and can be likened to trying to cinch a belt of a fixed length around an ever expanding mid-section. You try sucking in your gut and holding your breath and straining and tightening such abdominal muscles as you still have and every now and then you get the two ends together and buckled but then you can’t breathe so most days you hold the belt together with plastic. This method worked okay when it was first introduced but then somehow, instead of trying to shrink back to where everything fit comfortably, eventually people became proud of their plastic. They started looking down their noses at others for not having their kind of plastic and comparing different colors and issuers of plastic. Eventually the plastic started wearing out and instead of seeing they had a problem they started trying to use new plastic to hold old plastic together. Over the years people have come up with temporary fixes, duct tape, elastic, velcro, rope, chains, safety pins, bigger clothes to cover up the problem but these things only go so far. The only answer is to take action to get yourself and your finances down to a size that fits well within the belt that you have. When you start working towards that you’ll find yourself getting angry at various people and institutions, including yourself. The anger has to come and go. That is the process of emotions. There’s no way to go back and undo the damage that over-indulgence and over-extension has done in people’s lives. There’s no way to bring back anyone who has committed suicide over finances, or anything else for that matter. What we have to do is change our futures by not continuing the bad habits of the past.
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