I was so excited about reaching my goal yesterday until I forgot to tell the other part of what happened to me. Tuesday night, I stopped by Barnes and Nobles to work on a poem and to read a few books. On my way in, I looked over at Jos A Bank and decided to go and just window shop. If anyone knows me, they know that I like to dress. I take pride in looking presentable. When I walked in, I saw these sale signs all over the place. The sign said: Buy 1 wool suit at regular price and get $1000 worth of merchandise for FREE (exclusions-shoes and gift cards). The cheapest wool suit was $550. I thought about it for a minute just to see if it was a good deal. I am a very logical thinker. After careful consideration, I thought it was a good deal. I even went to the extent of carefully picking out my $1000 worth of merchandise. I was in the store for about forty-five minutes. Here I was, had reached my goal for starting to save and this BIG deal comes along. Not to mention that my wife had just told me the day before that I had lost my swag when it came to dressing. I had the money in my pocket, the clothes in my hand and what did I do.....
I kindly placed the clothes down and walked out. When I left that deal on the table, I felt good. As much as I like to dress and take pride in dressing, I let it go. I let it go because I have things in my life that are more important than clothes and good deals. I am not the single man I use to be. I am now a married man, that loves his wife dearly. I walked away from it because of something my wife said to me before we got married. We were talking one day about our future and at that time I was still working at Walmart. We were discussing finances and what would happen if I got a job making better wages. I told her that I hope I don't go back to buying a lot of clothes like I use to. Her respond to that was, "that's what I'm afraid of." Those words never left me. When I made the remark, I was be sarcastic but her response wasn't. She was serious. When I realized that she was serious, it made me think. I started thinking that I have to show her that she doesn't have to worry about me being that way. Even though we weren't married, I didn't want her feeling this way. After we took our vows, I took it even more serious. That's why when I walked out of that store and left that deal on the table, I felt good. I felt good because deep down inside I knew that I had made my wife proud. Even though she wasn't with me, she was with me. I felt as if she was right by my side saying, "job well done Swint."
Sometimes we have to really let go of what we use to do. Not saying give up everything, but sometimes you need to give up some things to see just how much it really means to you. And then there are times where you just need to do it, just because you know that it will make the other person happy. Even if it means passing up a GOOD deal. Because sometimes even the GOOD deals aren't as GOOD as the feeling you get when you know you have made someone else proud. You will become a better person and you will realize that it's not all about you but more so about the two of you....which adds up to ONE-not regular math, but GODs math!
"The more you do right, the harder the fight"-Rhonda Faye Brown
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