In the lines of Sophie Kinsella, "When I shop, the world gets better, and the world is better, but then it's not, and I need to do it again." (Confessions of a Shopaholic-the movie)
Or even along the lines of Erma Bombeck, "Shopping is a woman thing. It's a contact sport like football. Women enjoy the scrimmage, the noisy crowds, the danger of being trampled to death, and the ecstasy of the purchase."
The odds of going into this humongous shopping mall - with very attractive stores, which has even more attractive stuff inside the store and ever encouraging staff - to buy just this one dress we had in mind and come out with just that is one in a zillion. The very thought of coming out of a mall with all those shopping bags we never intended on coming out with is because - At that very moment we saw that dress on that mannequin, we knew we were meant to be. The connection was obvious. The dress had you held hostage till you took it to the Cashier and settled the bills. And the same repeated again and again and again until your small hands just couldn't take the burden of those baggages anymore. Oh and when there are bargains - The love and the connection just get deeper between the mannequin and us.
Shopping gets really complicated with us women - We tend to see the future of a lot of dresses in our future and just keep piling it for the future and then forgetting the piled up future with the bygone. It's just that one thing we women can never ever hate. It's that quick fix for almost every evil thing in our life.It gives us that pleasure. It feels like magic.
But after that elated feeling wears away - We look through the swipes we've made on our card and realise that the world is a really cruel place, more on the lines of evil - The evil trap of Consumerism.
To an extent anything is good and so is Consumerism - It makes us happy for a while and of course the governments also happy - As the success rate of Government is gauged by how well the "Scared Note" does it's rounds which in turn if on the higher side leads to the conquest of economic management.
Till then it's ok to shop cause every once in a while a girl just has to indulge in herself in the most constant thing in her life.
But after that elated feeling wears away - We look through the swipes we've made on our card and realise that the world is a really cruel place, more on the lines of evil - The evil trap of Consumerism.
To an extent anything is good and so is Consumerism - It makes us happy for a while and of course the governments also happy - As the success rate of Government is gauged by how well the "Scared Note" does it's rounds which in turn if on the higher side leads to the conquest of economic management.
Till then it's ok to shop cause every once in a while a girl just has to indulge in herself in the most constant thing in her life.
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