Convenience, How Much it Cost?

Convenience is a word closely attached to modernization. It is something that most modern facilities, gadgets, or even activities are being attached with. The main objective of which is to save resources, e.i. time and money, or eliminate frustrations.

Look around us we can see convenience store, convenience foods (a.k.a. ready to eat or serve foods), or even marriage of convenience as common examples.

Convenience stores are one usually found in petrol stations selling grocery items, toiletries, magazines, foods, and many other small items and services. Instead of going to supermarkets inside malls where looking for parking and walking inside consumes a lot of time, motorists can conveniently picked the items at these stores attached to a petrol station on the way home. Of course, the time saved is paid with a premium via the higher price tags of all items sold at convenience stores.

Ready to eat or serve foods has its cost too. What can you expect in exchange for the time saved, especially for all busy buddies out there who wants to save time in cooking for their foods. The price tags for convenience food could be your health as these type of foods contain preservatives or other chemicals that could ruin our health.

Marriage for convenience. These are resorted to by some when they arrange marriage not for love or a purpose of establishing a family, but mostly for immigration. No need to discuss further the cost attached to this type of an arrangement.

What other convenience you could think of that ruins the life of many?

Yeah, you got it correctly. Those little plastic cards, the credit cards. Is it not convenience these plastics are being marketed for?

Convenience and safety of carrying plastics instead of money. Convenience in purchasing the gadgets and other items of luxury while paying it at a later date. Worse, convenient cash available in case of emergency.

Even worse, is how easy one can purchase unnecessary items for lack of mental exercise in making decisions for convenience overrules your mind to thinking if you can afford the things you are buying or not.

Before all these conveniences came to being, our forefathers lived. They lived without credit cards. They even cooked their food while walking for miles from one place to another for they do not have the same luxury and convenience of modern transportation. Yet, they are happy and free--free from debts.

If your life is controlled by these conveniences, think again. The cost it attached could be your life.

Remember, nothing instant in this world is worthwhile. Achieving things through hard-work and sacrifice lasts forever, especially the joy it brings when achieving these.