Premium Life (part two)

As promised here is part two of my series on my 'premium life' I hope it is enlightening.

One of the biggest things that one must do is make sacrifices in life. Be it for yourself or for someone else. However making sacrifices is not an easy task. You need to see beyond the immediate, and look for the overall benefits associated with your sacrifices. If you don't you will end up miserable, dragging everyone around you down.

A really good example of this is my boss and his wife. They came to Canada to make a better life for their son. They are not alone in this desire. They left behind money, houses, comfort, and family so that their son would be able to live a good life. My boss does not seem to be too upset about everything and manages to get through everyday with a smile. His wife on the other hand, feels completely different. To skip the hurtful and misguided ramblings on my bosses wife, I will just say that she is one woman who hasn't accepted her sacrifices with an open heart. I have talked about certain aspects of her personality with my boss and his best response was she is not unhappy, but she is not happy.

This is one thing that I do not want to have happen to me with my sacrifices, or this whole premium life thing is garbage.

But what are acceptable sacrifices? For me two of the things on their way out is beer and chips. I can confidently say that chips have not been in my stomach for nearly three months. The only thing with chips is that I work at a gas station and I see them five out of seven days, so almost everyday is a constant battle of saying no. Really there is nothing gained by eating chips though, other than fat. Quite the opposite of that is beer. Beer is an integral part of socialization where am from, it has been difficult drawing the line for beer. I am avoiding socialization for the very reason that I know beer will be involved in some way shape or form no matter what I do here. By avoiding it however I am more than likely putting some serious strain on some low threshold friendships.

Even still letting go of two things a total life makeover does not make. There is definitely more that needs to be sacrificed. And here is where it gets tricky. It would seem that I am not being entirely honest with myself, because as much as I want the better life later on I am not bringing my life down to zero. If all I spent my money on was coffer and cigarettes I would be a happy man. But then life comes at you: I found a bicycle, okay so I am planning on bringing it to Vancouver so buying new tires for it would make sense. Oh man I would love an energy drink, its cool because I am making sacrifices by not eating chips or drinking beer. Hey thats a bottle of Zippo lighter fuel, man I hate using these bics. Huh, I'm only 5 minutes away from value village lets take a look inside, Wow thats a great shirt. It is stopping those moments, its stopping the frittering of my money that is going to win this war. Thats not to say I can go out and eat a bag of chips or buy a six pack because I am stopping the frittering, but its in the combination that success will prevail.

I was not planning on a part three, however as work draws nearer I must finish what I am doing and come back to it another day. Look forward to part three where I discuss some of the positive things I am doing and some lofty goals for the future.

Thanks

Joshua