Sorry the blog used to be in American time which is 8 hours behind Dublin time and 15 behind Malaysia now it is the correct time for Dublin that is.
I was thinking..why do people sepnd beyond their means and sometimes i ti is onthings that are not imporatant. I can understand if you spend beyond your means to get treatment for some rare illness but for things like a camera handphone with computer game functions is something that I cannot comprehend. Why so much money when you can barely buy nutritious food on a piece of gadget just to look cool? They must have a reason. Is it a deep feeling to trump everyone else and because they are not smart, beatiful of talented to do it in other ways they do it in ways they are willing to do it,namely getting into debt or giving up proper meals for a handphone?
Again it has strain of self-gratification. Again in society we are no better. Everyone expects to be rewarded which again is a form of gratification because reward could mean food, praise or even sex, things which if offered the normal amoral human wil not refuse. We who are in a more privileged position can achieve this in a 'sane' and legal way but the knacker kids in the inner city Dublin may resort to stealing and so on. This is a consequence of a society that places so much emphasis on achievement and reward or for the inner city kids cool and glamour which is parallel of achievement. Instead we should place emphasis on character, discipline, and attitudes. We cannot tell the world to but we can jolly well do this in the church.