Mexico

I love being a student! I love being poor! (and I will probably wish to retract that sentence at some point during the year!)

Me and my flatmate were talking last night about culture and society etc, (this conversation came from my reading Andrew's posts on related stuff and Francie's sociology-type lectures that he's got at the moment). Anyways, we were talking about comfort as well, and how he learnt that comfort is the lack of feeling, and we strive to be comfortable, cos if we are we can escape the 'real world' for a bit and just pretend life doesn't exist! (Tangent sorry).

Anyways, what I was thinking of when writing this post - is that I don't want to have so much money that i can provide for myself lots of luxuries so that I can live in comfort. I think there's so much more to get out of being less well-off than there is being affluent (not speaking in terms of education, etc but life stuff that actually matters). Not having money all the time means I have to just make do with what I've got, and it also means that if me and a mate want to go do something fun, we often end up taking a picnic somewhere or doing something that doesn't cost much and we have a great time!! Being poorer means I bike places (out of neccessity)- which is much better for me than driving! - and you walk a bit too!!

Right now I am being thankful for not always having money to get what I want. I'm sure I'll learn more being poorer than I would if I had money!! : )