In India, I had never felt like what i'm feeling now!!!
Shopping used to be kind of a rare occasion! It had so many other reasons, I was a child then (seen as a child even at the age of 25). one of the favourite pass time is shopping. we had so many realtives and friends coming to our home, and we are ususally used to it.
So shopping was done like 4 times a year or so .... I started to buy more dresses when i started to earn .... but even that time it was not more than 6 times a year.
The other household goods, my mother herself buys it. In my aunt's place, she does it, sometimes i'll be a helper in buying vegetables. I was still a grown up student, even at the time when i started to earn ... My daily routine would be getting up, stay sometime in kitchen, getting ready for office, some 8 hours in office, back to home .... some time listening to kids activities, and then to bed. (worryless life)
Life in Dubai is what i would have never imagined earlier, "Dubai life"....
Here we don't have anybody worth enough to rely, to accept and to trust(except spouses). We make new friends, on mutual understandings, very comfortable life with everything readymade and life here starts, lives and go on only with shopping and shopping malls, along with work and responsibilities.
I wonder when people turn to be so caring after their long visit to foriegn countries. The hidden reason is they realize the importance human care and love.
Shopping is the only entertainment here. Shopping malls - "a mesmorizing place". You will go there with your small list (which would be like an odd one out) and while you return, there would be atleast 10 more things, which u don't know if you really need it. You go again for shopping to buy things for your kith and kin.... The week starts with shopping and ends with shopping and shopping malls.... You wonder why i bought all this at the time of bill....New, clean, attractive products.... that gives comfort.... will be in your home.....
And that keeps coming more and more.... And you realize that you have bought really too much when you pack things for home.....
The fun of shopping was more, when it was done just 4 times a year, or six times a year and it is less when it is done for 3 times a week.
You will feel - why i bought so much only at the time when you pack things to move home.....
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3 comments:
Even i too feel the same dear
True dear
Its the Demand and Supply theory
When you dream, long to have something and then you have it, its really nice
but if that becomes a routine there is no thril or fun in it
abirami
As you have rightly oberved, retail is big in many Western countries. It is an indicator of lifestyle changes and the increase in disposal income.
Earlier, when we had time, we would visit our friends and relatives. But today, we have to plan that activity much in advance. Malls certainly are more interesting to us.
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