VALUE FOR MONEY

The human mind is so infinitely complex; its mere location is disputable. Some point to their heads when saying "have you lost your mind", others point to their hearts when saying "keep me in mind". Wherever its location, there's no disputing the fact that it harbours all feelings and emotions.

Greed, hurt, satisfaction, love, contentment and all sort of human emotion are hard to quantify; as there's no metric to gauge them by -- which all adds up to make psychology an interesting study.

There are many facets to happiness -- the most sought after of human emotions. Vengeance, morose delectation, masochism, opulence etc are all capable of giving varying degrees of happiness to different people. Today, I'm gonna talk about satisfaction, which I define as the gratification of a desire/want.

Not too long ago, in a not-so-weird father-son bonding exercise, I went shopping with my daddy. I rolled the cart and picked up some stuff. When we got to the nutrition section, i picked two 500g sachets of Milo when someone said that had automatically qualified me for a raffle draw and i would stand the chance to win a car, a laptop, a tablet and other assorted debaucheries. Cue the disappointment when I drew a paper revealing I'd won a pen. A fucking pen! All that money and I only have a 20naira pen!! When I left the store,I was a tad unhappy.

So in the evening, while hanging with friends, I brought the issue up. One of them said, "...but you still have your Milo. Whatever you were going to win with the coupon is just a bonus." I never thought of it that way. That shit transcends tea peeps! Sometimes in life, you set a goal. Along the line, there's an opportunity to achieve more than the set goal (and you take your eyes off the prize a little). When in the end, you end up with 'just' the goal (& not the bonus), you should be satisfied that the primary aim was accomplished.

Also, when a seller accepts the price I offer, I feel I should have made a lower offer. But hey, as long as you get value for your money, be happy.

Thoughts?

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