Delayed Gratification

Delayed Gratification…waiting until your work is done before playing… That’s one definition…there are others…such as waiting until you can pay your own cell phone bill before you get one… I was looking around the other day… And every child I knew had a cell phone… I was amazed… I remember when my son got one at sixteen… I was pretty opposed… But his dad said, “He is a good kid, with great grades and most importantly he earns enough to pay his own bill.” At that point I was in… However what I see are kids with a thousand minutes… With parents and grandparents paying upwards of ninety bucks a month… For eleven year olds, who in some cases are barely passing their classes… What is up with that? And before anyone says it is to keep up with where kids are… I want you to know I never lost my children, not once… And they were sans cell phones… The same hold true for adults who own fifty thousand dollar cars… And no homes…or worse yet are thirty and living with their mamas… What happened to working hard, saving your ducats… Then purchasing the things you want and can afford… That you will get to keep with no chance of repossession… Or cutoff… I guess it went the way of delayed gratification… Why wait, save and buy… When we can wrap ourselves in debt… Pretending like we are rich…when we ain’t… When we don’t have a pot or a window… So all I am saying is a lot of things are better…and more appreciated… When we wait for them… Are prepared for them… When we get to enjoy them… Without staying awake at night wondering… How we are going to pay for them… Just call me ‘Old School’… Love and Blessings Angelia acVernon Menchan