Scenario 1: As I entered the pen store, my friends who accompanied me laughed at me, “who would buy so expensive pens, dude, other than fools like you?, wouldn’t a Reynolds do?”
Secnario 2: I walked in to my office with a new bag, my colleagues rushed in to check it out; one asked me, “do you need this costly bag? wouldn’t the one given by office for free do?”
Scenario 3: At a family gathering we decided to see a movie and I went in to my room to get the bluray. Immediately a relative asked, “Wow! you have a bluray? Why waste money when you can download from the net for free?”
Honestly, I’m sick of listening to these judgements. Not only are you treated as an outsider, but also as a spendthrift. True, you can live your entire life with a 5 rupee reynolds pen, use a free book given in your office, always watch free pirated movies. But is that the life you want to live? Probably that’s the way you want to live life, but, why comment? why demean? why alienate? why treat someone like a freak and accuse him/her of being a elitist and a spendthrift, for wanting “what he thinks is best in class in everything?”
I find it hard to explain to people about my decisions. But, I know I’m not alone. Like Marco Amrnet who once tweeted, “If you sit on, sleep on, stare at, or touch something for more than an hour a day, spend whatever it takes to get the best”, my philosophy has always been, “buy quality products, ’coz quality drives experience, which in turn makes up life.”
It’s not that I want buy-in from the folks around me. But, it becomes hard on me when I realize that I’ve become a constant butt of jokes to everyone.
no, you are not the joke. you are a class; the class, that is long forgotten, due to unaffordability. remain yourself. do not change. ignore the stinks.