There were two things I thought
recurring expenditure
and recurring income.

First one was surely the devil
and second was the savior and so
I planned to keep the devil at bay.

But it was never very easy doing
all the right things in your life
and so the earth was not yet a heaven.

Specially for me it was almost
an impossible task to agree that it was possible
to cut short my expenditures.

It was a question of changing altogether
my habits and my life style.
It was question of sacrificing some of my dreams.

And the hardest part of it what I thought was
to convince my family that season had now changed
and so, we required to adjust with the climate.

To my great astonishment for the first time I saw
my wife was much informed in this matter
and she was waiting for me to understand.

So my battle against recession was now half won.
We made 'save today to spend tomorrow' our mantra.
We decided to keep all our buying decisions pending.

She found happiness in gardening as I found it in poetry.
Our children found saving coins in piggy banks
was also very amusing instead of buying chocolates.

You must have also heard, tomorrow never comes.
So our children found happiness in thoughts
what our mantra 'Save today to spend tomorrow' will yield.





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Palas Kumar Ray

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