“When you have money to buy a bicycle, you walk; when you have money to buy a scooter, you buy a bicycle; when you have money to buy a car, you buy a scooter” were the golden words of one of my Professors Dr. Kanakaraj David who taught me Entomology (Study of Insects) when I was a graduate student fifty years ago. I still remember those golden words which are stored in my brain. I repeatedly told this valuable advice to many of my students, friends and family members. Some of them really appreciated and some others were not heedful. However, I used to think over Dr. David’s suggestion many times. I found it more practical and more useful suggestion for everyone’s life. The moral of the statement is, simple and economic life can make one happy. In today’s world, no one wants to wait and get things, because loans are easily available to all. Thus there is plenty of money for buying a car straight away without using the legs to walk and riding a bicycle. Probably, Dr. David’s suggestion may not suit the present day set up of life. As you know that the advice is 50-year-old.
I know fully well that the loan business is an invention of the capitalists who are hungry for huge money. If we think of the interest we pay for the loans we take from nationalized or private banks, we really lose lot of money slowly and steadily. The loss of money on interest satisfies our greed to posses a car at once. The culture of walking and bicycling has disappeared from the minds of many middle-class and lower middle-class people. In fact, walking and bicycling are the best exercises to keep our body healthy. In addition, they are the cheapest exercises help to save the energy – petrol, electricity etc. Moreover, saving money for more urgent and needy things in life is a good habit. Because of saving we do not incline to buy unwanted things and accumulate as junks in our house. We all know how many such things are stored in every house without using them for decades or even for many decades. No one buys these junks paying the price we paid for them. Hence we give them for charity to get some mental peace. All those hard earned money is wasted? Is it really wasted? Or used for instant living?
I know fully well that the loan business is an invention of the capitalists who are hungry for huge money. If we think of the interest we pay for the loans we take from nationalized or private banks, we really lose lot of money slowly and steadily. The loss of money on interest satisfies our greed to posses a car at once. The culture of walking and bicycling has disappeared from the minds of many middle-class and lower middle-class people. In fact, walking and bicycling are the best exercises to keep our body healthy. In addition, they are the cheapest exercises help to save the energy – petrol, electricity etc. Moreover, saving money for more urgent and needy things in life is a good habit. Because of saving we do not incline to buy unwanted things and accumulate as junks in our house. We all know how many such things are stored in every house without using them for decades or even for many decades. No one buys these junks paying the price we paid for them. Hence we give them for charity to get some mental peace. All those hard earned money is wasted? Is it really wasted? Or used for instant living?
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