Miserliness

 Miserliness 

Those few who try to be frugal in exhausting resources that belong to the society, are at times a bit unfortunate,  when even_the close ones around him brand him as a miser !

Examples of society's resources are like water, air, fuel, electricity, staple food grains etc ( very essential for life to happen). When these and such items become scarce, money loses its intrinsic value! People compete to pay a little extra for these. Negative inflation happens!  Deficit financing, within control is positive_inflation, and  autocorrects itself over a period of time).

Other life forms are naturally frugal. A honeybee saves, so also an ant. But a lion can't refrigerate his meat_food. Lion doesn't indulge in fun_killing . We humans are beings of “Volitional consciousness“( as per objectivist epistemology). We can choose sadism to exploit. We can choose to be greedy. 

If greed to accumulate something,  is the fuel for hesitation to spend_for need, it is miserliness!

Ideally, a choice to become “inclusive”( treat entire universe as my_family, as said in sanskrit as VasudaivaKutumbakam), then….very naturally, we look at our “needs” and then, create a want/desire for it. Other than our needs, we naturally become a custodian/caretaker, of whatever possessions that happen to come within our control.

(My personal experience: when I got a job, I am supposed to take care my needs, all by myself. That salary was my sole_source of inflow! It barely sufficed “my needs” which was a little beyond food, shelter and clothing. Over decades, my needs seldom expanded, except for another “life” which happened through me-- not by_me🙏. 

Post retirement,  the wants started shrinking a little more than that of needs! This is an oddity, exceptional to rare few  like me. Among those few I am the worst type of idiot. But, a side_benefit was, I was constrained to “wonder + ponder” over sources of “wants & desires”!  Like, i ask myself “i really need this damn thing. But, unless I want_or_desire it, how am I going to try_to_get_it?”)

A small consolation creeper in when, slogans like “save water/LPG/electricity…. do not waste food” etc became Viral( thanks to information technology). Now, only my savings can cause an eye_sore to those spendthrifts around me, whose incomes were similar to me. Richer and poorer ones spare me😜

Lavishly yours,

psn(23 March, 2025)

PostScript: 

Funny side of miserliness. 

Not easy to be_miserly, in use of water. We can be lavish, though a decent_name for such lavishness is "wasteage".

( suez, supplying 24/7 in coimbatore is capitalizing on the constricted_grasp of water_miserliness, to mint money😜.  My storage tank of 2000 litres becomes their storage tank of 2 lakh litres . Simple.  24/7 was from my tank. Now it is their tank😜, and for which, they depend on my lavishness to charge me "extra" beyond 15000 litres per month. This 15000 litres is parallel to minimum charges😜

Once that 24/7 is not from my tank, I "tend" to become lavish🤣🤣🤣)

Whereas,

Air.... 

If I turn miserly in breathing ( not really easy😜), 

then, I become healthy.

Heart works longer! Life span increases along side sensibleness( mere aging is useless, if senility accompanies🙏😰).

Anger reduces, tension reduces,  anxiety reduces....etc....if, I consciously decide to become miserly in consuming oxygenated_air 😜

😰

Since I am unable to afford
'the'  lavishness of copypastes/forwards( pun intended),
I resort to the_miserliness
'of' resorting to writing by_myself, often 🙏