How to be broke

Take it from a person with a bank balance that doesn’t qualify for traveling, but is enough to buy a pizza, that somehow in today’s world you can never be not-broke. I mean, I think twice before using the vending machine at my office!

I think it’s the mind games, you know. Like when I see a packet of Lays that costs just Rs. 10, I`m like well, I could get two orbits with that instead of one packet of air and few chips. Obviously, I don’t do this when it’s for an amount less than Rs. 100. When more than one zero is added, the game changes.

A zero -as demonstrated by a group of students during the school assembly – matters! Nine students dressed up like numbers and one egg. Wait, I  meant zero. They did this whole skit where you put the zero before the number and it doesn’t matter. Whereas you put it after the number, and the value shoots up like my mother’s pressure will when I tell her I’ve had a boyfriend for two years. Just kidding, mom! I love you.

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Now while writing this I could say that this skit finally made sense, but I think it made sense to me when I was constantly crying my eyes out for little things…HOLD UP! Does this mean I was 21 years old when I was 16 and never really knew?! WTF!

For those who didn’t get it, I still cry over stupid little things so…nothing much has changed except for my weight, haircut and friend circle. it’s close to non-existent. I’m fine with that…I did almost cry about it in the afternoon when I said it out loud, but in my head, I`m totally fine.

Ahem, anyway, getting back on track – the zero! Yes,  the zero matters.

So, how do we be broke then? You don’t, stupid. Nobody wants to be broke. We just picture 101 scenarios in which we are broke when we think of buying ourselves something but when we go to buy something for someone we love, we don’t see or even think how we will manage lunch next week. Now you might point out that I have never actually been broke so I can’t talk about it, but dear reader,  we all have our own definition of a million things. If I say the word stone, you will picture a rock or diamonds? I might tie it up with kidney stones or the stone I find when eating rice for breakfast, lunch, and dinner made by the landlady who refuses to make anything else! 🙂

 

 

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