Scary

I bought a new computer today and with that comes the need to also buy MS Office 2007. I'm possibly going shopping tomorrow also because I 'need' some new shoes for work. The problem is that I have identified these 'needs' and I know I won't just buy those things, but other pretty things that catch my eye or I'll invent an excuse to convince myself that I absolutely have to buy them.

I wish that I really had changed a lot while I was away. You see these people who can't even afford to send their kids to school for $6 a month and they're sitting by the side of the road selling beans while their infant children are fetching water from the water spring down the hill and gathering edible leaves for dinner. And yet, I come home and less than 3 months later I'm buying £450 laptops and clothes I don't really need. If the roles were reversed, would they do the same? Or even scarier, would I even be able to survive?