I know that I’m not exactly the role model when it comes talking about abundance and creating wealth. I only know about being prudent and saving money. But, hey! you have Rhonda Byrne with her ‘Secret’ entourage of wise people and wealth amassment gurus to tell you how you can attract money among other things into your life. I am a skeptic and I don’t always buy the new age philosophies that is available in this great country. Over the years, I thought myself how to be a rationalist in thinking. But recently I am coming to think that there is something terribly wrong with us.

Last week, I heard my neighbor’s seven year old twins blissfully and rather ignorantly singing this:

“Recession bites, reality bites

Tighten your belts, Stop buying felts

Save every pence for all the hens.�

I wonder how they came up with this or what influenced them. But seriously,does it sound like a new-age nursery rhyme? Or does it sound more like what you hear and read about everyday. If this were to be a new nursery rhyme, then I would sue the school for breeding such negativity in all the young minds. I have a daughter and I don’t want her to begin to think that money is a hard thing to earn. Most importantly I don’t want her to lead a life of lack.

And a couple of days ago, I had taken my daughter, Faith, out for a little quickie shopping at Walmart and there I saw a mom like me constantly denying everything that her little girl was pointing to. It was then that I had an epiphany.And I was like, “Wait a minute, I do that tooâ€�.I have denied my baby even when I could afford what she wanted. We were saving everything for a rainy day (which hasn’t come so far) and had forgotten to live in the present. I don’t remember indulging in anything for more than an year now, which, in all honesty had left me craving for a lot of things. The funny thing is that I could afford a lot of things for which I crave.

The question in my mind was “Why do we do save, when saving is not making us happy?�

So, in the end what happened? We splurged a bit but felt really good. You can call it the upliftment of the spirit from the shackles of the damn recession, if you like.

This blog is not gonna be about how to save on this or that. Instead, this is an open ended one. How you take the thought forward, is entirely up to you.

PS. I am reading ‘The Secret’ and I think I have been cruelly wrong about the philosophies these kind. And as for those who have read ‘The Secret’, do you think that I should buy myself a lotto ticket?