life: born free - live & die expensively

This post was inspired by an episode by the famous old American sitcom The Golden Girls:

How many of us has always had everything done for them in the sense of being 'spoon-fed'?

There have been many moments in life when I used to remember when I was a child and never thought of the sense of gratitude that I should have to He who gave me what I have until now. And how I never ended up asking where this or that came from. Almost all my questions where driven towards knowing as to why this had happened and why it didn't happen the other way. And that was pretty much it.

We have neglected in our lives to see to it that our future is taken care of. Not in the sense that our goals and targets are laid out for us to achieve in the near and/or distant future. But rather in the sense that our future is pretty much - in simpler terms - just taken care of financially, or socially or time-wise.

Social welfare is an important lifestyle that we should look after for it is the life that we will live once we are old and retired. Probably when we are 60 or 70 - should we ever reach such an age.

Here in Oman, we don't share the financial restraints that hold one down from spending their money uselessly like the existence of such a factor in the western world. That is due much to the 'golden age' that we live under in the ruling of His Majesty over the Sultanate ever since the great renaissance back in 1970. But what about afterwards? How do we see ourselves coping with the many influences that will no doubt reflect upon the society herein?

Something to ponder on.