Olivia's world

I also thought I was a productive person but after looking at the Facebook status of many people I realised that I'm so far from it.  At first I was in awe of all these creations that were being showcased on Facebook. And then I  looked on Instagram and I became depressed, really depressed, wondering if I was the only one in the whole world who was not in the mood for baking or cooking.  All I wanted to do was stay in bed and stare at the wall until lockdown was over. And when I imagined all the cooking and baking going on in other houses I got more depressed.  Someone posted a fat juicy steak on Instagram and my first thought was how do you cook a steak that thick. And I sunk even deeper into depression because my steak cooking abilities are so bad that we  stopped buying it. And we all pretend that we don't eat it. The only words concerning meat in our home are pork, beef and chicken. And we break it further down into mince, wors and bacon, but we don't ever s...

The other day I was asked a question of what would encourage a person to save. And I fluffed the answer entirely. I went home and I thought about it. And then it came to me. A crisis, that is what will cause most of us to save. Life has the ability to smack us now and then but the smacks come with different degrees of pain. First it will smack us and we'll just shrug it off, and move on. Then life smacks us again, only this time we see stars. But still we just wipe the tears and move on. Then life smacks us so hard that we stumble, fall, crumble and pass out. And then when you wake up, everything you've ever worked for has disappeared, and you have nothing left. And you have to start from scratch, with nothing, zero, zilch, nada. This is usually the time that you also learn to appreciate and understand the value of money. Because it will be gone. Then and only then as we start recovering from that financial disaster, do we start changing our ways. And then we start sa...