Shopping Woes Part 1

It is universally acknowledged that shopping is an incredibly difficult task and knowing this God has chosen girls to shoulder this greater duty and given the guys the pleasure to support them physically and financially. And usually people (refers to GUYS) don't understand the mental torture that a girl endures during shopping. Shopping..Pheww.. How much decision making troubles and how much financial managements? No wonder after shopping all you want to do is sit somewhere and eat your lungs out. What makes shopping so tiring? The list goes on and on...

Decision Making- Decision making has always been the most torturous element in life regardless of the place, time and age. I think decision making process during shopping is the most excruciating pain in life. Being torn between to or not to buy is strenuous . Imagine you walk pass a shop and there lies the most beautiful dress that leaves you gasping. And you stand there making the most important decision in your life. Should i use my Credit Card knowing the reality? Should i skip my posh and lavish outing for another few months to come? Will i have enough place to store this in my already overflowing closet? Sometimes, your brain successfully overpowers your desire and you proudly walk out of a store feeling satisfied that you have controlled your desire. I'm lucky that i'm not a shopaholic to that extent but sometimes i do put a pair of shoes back to the rack dreadfully looking at the thin purse laughing at me.

Size, colour and Price- Another painful attribute of shopping is the painful journey of finding the right size, the right colour which falls within your buying power. And any lame person knows that it's not an easy task. I have a friend who undergoes such a difficult moment whenever she goes shopping for shoes. She will never find her size especially when she has already fell in love with that particular design and colour. Such disappointment is indescribable where it leaves you with welling tears ( that's an exaggeration obviously). But it makes you to feel so sad and gives some sense of rejection when you don't get what you want. And that makes you to curse the designer for being so selfish and being ignorant of other sizes. Personally, i am an underweight girl and had lot of problems in getting the right size in Malaysia that i hated going shopping. However, Sydney became a paradise for shopping when i actually i found that i'm size 6 and YES they do have clothes in that size. And that year i really spent my allowance to the maximum and had to pay extra for shipping all my stuff back home. Since i can't find a place in the closet they are still sleeping in my luggage back even after 5 months.

Rejection- That happens a lot to me. You think you have found the right clothes/shoe/bag and you try that on and flash to your friend and the person gives a nasty comment. As much as you want to hear a sincere you always refuse to take the nasty sincere comment. Recently, i was out on the mission of getting a new handbag, and as i laid my eyes on one piece, i went like "isn't she gorgeous?" and tried on. And my friend was "That's not nice. It's too childish. May be you should carry something else". My face wilted at that immediate moment. Then regaining my composure i took another one and she was shaking her head in refusal. I was seriously disappointed and in my heart i was like "May be i should just come alone another time and get one". But at the end of the day we found one beautiful bag that both of us agreed on immediately. Anyways thanks venisha for the sincere comments though at times i feel like choking your throat for rejecting them.

to be continued...