This was my case when I decided, together with Yakof, to buy a house. I had gone through this ordeal some years back and the memory of the exhilaration I felt when I was free from all debts is still very fresh in my mind. I promised myself not to fall again in this trap as the feeling of living day by day, doing impulsive decisions, like going for a couple of days abroad, without worrying that you have a mortgage to pay, was priceless.
Irrespective of all this I did, once again, fall into the trap!
Well I guess in some ways I have to be proud of myself as this decision has meant that I have conquered my fears, which were turning out to be quite exhaustive. I had numerous arguments against not buying a property ranging from loss of freedom to being materialistic and so on.
All these arguments melted off when I stepped in my home. I never thought I would find the ideal place, as much as I had never thought of finding the ideal man. I should have known better, given I did find the ideal man around four years ago.
Four months down the line from that decision I still have no regrets. Mind you it's one hell of a job to juggle between decorating a house, paying the loan and all the bills and in the meantime still saving for travelling. Somehow I am managing, probably because I really want to make everything work out fine and maybe because I am a sucker for challenges. At the end of the day things really work out the way you want them to be, I do believe my will power is strong enough to make things happen.
It's quite late now, nearly one o'clock in the morning but it's now that my muse triggered after having booked my second flight for this year and having taken a look at my bank accounts!
