Stingy is a person who uses strong control in the flow of
cash and doesn’t easily cuts the value of his money if not really needed and
worth. When it comes in any financial
matter, the person immediately weighs the pros and cons before letting go the
money from hand and pocket. And keeps it
maintained at is. It’s fine for me to
know a person of this personality, and personally I take no offense if were
called stingy. Being it is, as long as
you are fairly not taking advantage and abusing anyone, and as long as you look
the spending habit based on reality and on pragmatism trait, then it is not
bad. Some people are just faultfinding
and taking it against being stingy and thrifty because they feel it’s corniness
that does not belong to the group who are enjoying the fun of life. Actually, some people consider stingy a human
imperfection, fault, defect and shortcoming.
There is dammed distinction and thin red line separating
between stingy and abusing. Thrifty is a person who doesn’t want to spend as
much as possible if not really for basic needs, instead would rather keep the
money. If you are controlling your
spending just to save from anything you want to have, that is not wrong as long
as there is no life and health put at risk otherwise it is not the applied
savings you are bringing into life. If a
person enjoys and abuses being always financially excused from the rest of the
group, in advantage to spend for their expenses among his group, cheats to save
and wants to gain without giving, then that is abusing. The same thing to interrelate stingy with
miser; when someone who is extremely ungenerous with money, that is miser but
it should not be mistakenly quoted same with stingy. While miser is about greed and mean grasping
person, stinginess is only about not being generous. Stingy is sparing or scant in using, giving
and spending but not selfish. And being
ungenerous doesn’t mean not appreciative, in fact a stingy or thrifty person
can give appreciation gift. It could be
small and economical but at least there is the gesture of appreciation and it
is not always gaining.
There is nothing really to feel offend to be stingy for it
is just being thrifty, practical, reasonable and realistic. Instead, what you need to do is to
distinguish how far and up to what extent should you go stingy? Unless you are in dire financial debt, if you
have limited resources, if the nature of expenditure is something that is
against your traits, then it is in the right track when you hold back to spend.
Why to spend gadgets that are just
luxury, tasty foods that contradicts wellness, partake in contributions that do
not worth the cause, pay something that is not worth the price, and take things
that you just want and not important and necessity? Why will you give money for the sake of
cooperation if everyone knows its end will mean harm? Do you really need party or it is just an instigation
of materialism? These check and balance
are reality and truthfulness, knowing the difference between necessities and
wants.
There are people who just love spending and they usually criticise
those stingy out of normal norms because of its contradiction to their
interests, outdated get-up, materials and curiosities, and boring daily simple
and quite life. People most common
excuses are the needs to enjoy the shortness of life and the truth of nothing
we can bring into next life after death.
And this is what materialism about that exactly what those thrifty
persons stay away from. It’s a matter of
how we enjoy life and since we will all go to afterlife fully bare and
empty-handed, establishing our future and cleansing our mortal life while
living on earth are certainly right. And
as final and closing words, I have but observed that those people who often
criticize are those who have needs more – thoughts to ponder.
By Alex V. Villamayor
August 21, 2015
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