ACT AND HABIT OF SAVING

I used to be very good at saving, until I became very bad at it. So bad that I could hardly account for the things I spend on a daily basis. When I thought about it critically, it became clear that most of my money was not really spent on me per se, but on those around me or on solving problems arising. It took a lot for me to finally accept that I wasn’t superman, and there were things I was not really responsible for. It took a lot for me to finally realize that saving was as important as that thing that was coming to take the money from my hand because if I did not save today, I will beg tomorrow.

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But then even after this discovery I was faced with a major problem of how to really save and keep saving. I am someone who would empty my account to solve other peoples problems and to be honest would not even regret it. It took time for me to realize this was a major problem and I needed to deal with it. And even after I realized this, I am also someone who can not say no when people ask for my help, and even if I get angry about it, I end up helping at the end of the day.

This made me create a strict savings plan that demanded I do not access my own funds until an appointed time. Even my emergency funds must be saved like this and only withdrawn once a week. This means I can only respond to an urgent situation 4 times in a month and if there are no urgent situations when my funds are available, I roll it over to the next week. When I started doing this, I realized things could actually wait, so long no one was dying and it has saved me a whole lot.

THIS IS MY RESPONSE TO SCIFI CONTEST PROMPT FOR WEEK 73 EDITION 2