BIGGER THAN YOU!

As of late, there has been a lot of discussion around the preservation of funds and people withdrawing their money in cash when changing employers. Each to their own is my belief and opinion. Take your cash and spend it, if you don’t spend it, give it to me and I will.

Regardless of what you read or what you are told, the fact of the matter is that you still going to do exactly what you want. We do this because we don’t know any better, yet certain consumers choose to be naïve enough to pass the buck and not own up to the truth… We are the dumbest-smart race! In other words, we don’t always think about our own preservation. We spend money to impress, not thinking about the consequences, we buy impulsively knowing very well that we probably won’t use that R1000.00 can opener with 1001 functions that is still essentially, a glorified can opener. We spend R5000.00 on a bottle of wine, when most of us wouldn’t know the difference between that and a R20.00 bottle from your local corner store.

Yet through all this chaos and anarchy, it is our instincts as human beings to survive. We will always be just fine; it’s how we are designed. When you have your back against the wall, it is your instinct that tells you to fight.

You ask how this is relevant.

We make all the wrong decisions to find the right answers. Inevitably we start learning from our mistakes and realize how important not spending our pension money is. We grow up, start families and then the broader picture comes to light; saving is bigger than just you! This is the time when you starting fighting because you know that your responsibilities have changed. Your instincts kick in and it begins to sink in that if you don’t start saving, you will become the burden of the very humans you have created.

Leaving it until it’s all too late has become somewhat of a fashion statement in recent times. It’s up to you to break the trend and move towards self education.

As once famously quoted, “There is no need to sally forth, for it remains true that those things which make us human are, curiously enough, always close at hand. Resolve then, that on this very ground, with small flags waving and tinny blast on tiny trumpets, we shall meet the enemy, and not only may he be ours, he may be us.”

So yes; you will be just “fine”…. but is “fine” enough?

Saving really is bigger than you!