When I was a decade younger..I just couldn't stand my dad! Why ? Because I thought he was too calculated and too stiff and not spontaneous enough.
I wondered to myself why my mum even decided to marry him.
I had so many questions and loathed him in my heart.
...Daddy can we have money to buy ice cream? "No! Monday, that will be your snack money". Arghhhhh..... what a stiff I thought to my self.
My dad would require a list of all we need for every time school re-opened and we were returning to boarding school.
He would demand that we compared prices of stores and come up with the lowest prices on our list.
After all that hard work, He would cross out 3/4 of the list and decide for you what's necessary ..imagine the agony of a teenage girl.
"I decided to study hard make my own money and spray money all over him as revenge..Ha!"
As years passed by, his actions became lesson notes for me.And it highlighted to me the successful life of a Man who planned his every move.
I began to see a meticulous man who worked hard for his money and did not believe in spending it lavishly on caprices or whimsy desires outside his game plan. He managed a large family like it was no big deal.
Today I buy groceries from the stores with the lowest prices because it makes a lot of sense. Not to say that I have totally arrived, impulse is a daily battle for a young woman like me and oh boy i know i'm not alone.... can I get a witness (in a southern American preacher's voice)
....Choose planning over allowing the tides take the issues of your life where they may go.
"Spontaneity is not evil but its like a spice you don't need to much of it "
"spontaneity is like a spice you don't need to much of it"
..so planning and priority is the name of the game.
