Saving and investing in pre-apocalyptic times
When the future is so uncertain, is it logical to delay gratification?
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Suraya of Ringgit Oh Ringgit recently asked, “Why should I save when the future is so uncertain?”
If there’s anything I learned from the last two years, our futures are up to the mysterious Man in the sky.
We may plan to our hearts’ content, but a doctor’s diagnosis or an autocrat’s ambition can scuttle our plans.
Ukrainians certainly learned that bitter lesson when Russian bombs started raining down on them in February 2022.
Life can turn on you quickly.
And you have no control over it.
So knowing all this, saving and investing during uncertain times is like walking down a dark corridor, your life’s possessions in your hands, and you warily watching for invisible hands that are waiting to grab it from you.
There’s a part of me that wants to say, “F*** it,” quit my job and just spend my days watching Netflix, reading trashy romance novels and drinking artisan coffee.
But there’s another part of me that is telling me: “Hold on. The life you’re building is worth fighting for.”
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Dear Elizabeth, thanks for a 'live' and practical article on life itself.
Whatever you have written is spot-on. No want can ever tell or actually predict the 'real' future on what it is going to be except only predictions and assumptions. Even those who read and seeing signs in the sky like astrology can only assume but even then it is only in general and may or may not reflect the true path that each and everyone of us are walking on and what will come into being. This then take us to often do good and give help whatever and whenever we can while we are alive.
My apologies and kindly excuse me that I am not as good at writing nor articulate articles as well as your goodself . Whatever I wrote here just come straight from my heart!
That is why there is a saying that only death is certain!
Cheers!