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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!
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To: Grainne who wrote (25874)11/7/1998 6:29:00 PM
From: Jacques Chitte  Read Replies (1) of 108807
 
Christine, you wrote about teenage selfishness. I remember when I was in my mid-teens. I had a pronounced selfish/materialistic streak. I didn't outgrow it. No, it was held in check by continual comments from my parents and peers. I don't think it "fixes itself". You are probably on the hot seat regarding telling Briana waht's waht in the world of ethics/selfishness. Words are half the story - the other half is the example you and those close to you provide.
My parents were a frugal pair. When I was a kid, it was a struggle dealing with the idea that I didn't have the nicest toys on the block. I certainly had adequate ones - but never the newest or glitziest thing. I had trouble understanding why i couldn't get bigger better things - especially when i saw the awesome amount of cash money my mama started her month's grocery budget with.
Now I realize two things - much later. 1) That monthly budget was sufficient but certainly no lottery strike. I have learned what ordinary things cost. (Being put on an adequate but inflexible budget in college really assisted that realization.
2) The gift I never recognized was travel. The annual two weeks at the beach - and the quadrennial pilgrimage to my grandma's apartment (a wondrous and exotic place with high ceilings and a very special set of smells) in Vienna. Now that I'm a parent myself - I wouldn't do it different. Travel is a greater gift than shiny battery-operated junk - and it teaches the virtue of delayed gratification in its exercise. I look back on those trips with far more fondness than my once-precious plastic jet fighters.
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