Prince: Emulate & example...is Self-Defeating theory..

Being a bread winner for a family, it is very important to understand the expenses of one family itself, especially when only one source of income is available in a family, and merely enough for the family to survive.

Human being can not merely refer to the past-life example of which they tend to emulate, sometimes; it may not necessarily be the same case. Prince’s family used to earn RM 2000 – RM3000 a month but the situation has no different than a poor family, due to the expense for which a family needs to survive.

His parent supported 3 siblings at which prince was the eldest, and now doing his MBA. The family has no extra saving, and have to source for money when crisis hit in the family, but today, prince still alive and kicking. Prince ponders, ‘Do I have to emulate my family?’ the answer is always NO, not that his family can do it, and prince has to do it as well; he would rather make his choice of managing a family instead of running it.

Some family may have earned less than RM 1000 but able to up bring their children, they have been through a life that, probably, many others who earn more than RM 1000 have or have not been through. For example, for prince, his family would have earn RM 3000 a month to support 3 children, but to compare to the RM 1000 income family, they have no different. Prince realizes the nature of it, because prince judges at his own family living styles, every lunch and dinner, his mother will prepare dishes which have meat, fish and soup, further, judging at his brother’s body size, can assume that he eats a lot. These, all can help to conclude if a family earns better can lead a better life, or at the similar pace of a RM 1000 income family.

A family can earn a few hundred a month but still alive and kicking until now, probably, they lead a prudent, thrifty and simple life, eat vegetable, and take meat once a while, cook only merely enough for all family members without wasting any food, and not affected by temptation and material in life, then a few hundred per month can certainly help you to lead through your life, meanwhile, assisted by the family background, for example, did the ancestor inherit anything for the family that they can use to sustain they current living, for example, an estate or an old house which they can sell off for money? Under this type of family circumstance, moral value is very important, and further, a small amount of money can help to sustain the family for a very long period due to the prudence value.

In conclusion, it drilled down to the sacrifices and choices that one human being has to make, but certainly, not to follow the pace of others. Rationality is important, and a good management is as vital too. Sometimes, what we think it is may not construct what it is…