Shopping & Dinner with Friends

I feel that with the passage of time I am becoming more materialistic. At first I had a good thinking that a man should not be judged by his clothes and his money. But surprisingly now, my thinking is changing a bit. Hmmm, it is not surprising because now I earn money myself and I understand that money should be invested and not be kept locked but use somewhere.

At first, I used to think that I should be happy with the limited dresses which i have in my cupboard. But now I think it is appropriate to buy more outfits and dresses. Because living in the university, when I see other people wearing new clothes, my thinking also changes. The idea of buying new and branded dresses often popped up in my mind but i suppressed all these ideas. Perhaps this is called fear of missing out.

I have never worn any brand's dress till now. But whenever I see my friends talking about brands and they are shopping from different brands, I always have thoughts and cravings in my mind.As always, I didn't let these thoughts get too far.

For the last three years in the university, I was constantly suppressing these thoughts, but now I have decided that this time I will definitely wear some brand. Not only my thoughts, but also my friends used to tell me that you don't look like that you have a rich and good family. They judge me by my dressing. I don't know what was the standard of living in olden times but now the standard has gone down a lot.
Nowadays, people consider another person to be a good and quality person by looking at his dressing and the money he has.

These were all the parameters of the society which shaped my thinking according to the society. Due to all these conditions, I went to the commercial market of Rawalpindi along with my friends on their request to buy new fits for me.

We went to the commercial market and bought sweaters and hoodies from some local stores. There are many advantages of shopping from local stores. The biggest advantage is their low rates. Secondly, they don't have specific brands but copies of brands. Because of the low rate, we bought two sweaters which cost us 2700 Pakistani rupees.

My friends suggested me that since I had already bought two sweaters from a local store, why not try the outfitters brand too. Believing them, I went to the outfitter's outlet and bought a set. I liked the sweat shirt, which was 6500 Pakistani rupees. Well, with this amount of money, I can probably buy four sweatshirts from a local shop. Since this was the first time I was buying something from a brand, my heart allowed it.

I also liked the green shirt there, but it was five thousand Pakistani rupees, which seems quite expensive. Anyway, in this inflationary era, my pocket doesn't allow spending that much. Moreover, being a student I have to be very careful with my spending.

I bought only one shirt, but the thought of that green shirt kept coming to my mind. One should not allow such thoughts to linger in the heart for long, which cause you to suffer. Well, to give relief to my heart, I thought that whenever there will be an online sale, I would definitely buy that green shirt.

After shopping, all of us friends were feeling very hungry. We had placed an order for a regular pizza and two burgers at Cheezious. Immediately after shopping, we went to Cheezious to have our pizza.

A friend of ours, Basit, was sitting there waiting for us and he was angry because we were late from shopping. He angrily told us that food should never be made to wait so long because a person works hard all day just because of food. Well, we lightened Basit's mood with some jokes.

After that we had a very nice pizza. Well,I love fast food but because of this I am facing many health issues today. Due to all these health issues the doctor prohibited me from eating fast food.Still I eat fast food only occasionally.

My friends seemed quite happy as it was my first time shopping from a brand so they were taking pictures of me with the package of the brand.

In every friend group there must be one friend who eats food slowly. Similarly in our friend group we have our friend Sabiha who eats very slowly. We had finished our food but still hungry. We were not done, that's why we were asking Sabiha for her share as well. Since Sabiha has a very good heart, she divided her pizza into two pieces and gave it to us.

After paying our dinner bill, we left our friend Anita to her hostel. She invited us to stay in her hostel for a while. We had a lot of fun while sitting there.

I was making different pictures of my friends on which we were all laughing. Our taxi had stopped outside the hostel. Without any delay we sat in the taxi and left for the university. During the journey we talked a lot.

On reaching the university, Basit and I bought two mango flavored ice creams from an ice cream shop and after that we left for our hostels.
After going to the hostels, when I opened the website of the outfitters brand, I found out that there is 30 percent off on their website. I was happy to see that but also sad because I had shopped at their outlet and this sweatshirt was quite expensive.
Sitting in the hostel, I thought why not order same sweatshirt from their website and return the one I bought from their outlet. That way I can save 2000 rupees and with two thousand rupees I can eat something good.
Yeaaaah.

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