Starting with this particular image below because my nephew continuously asking me to click a picture of his toy and show it on the big screen, on my monitor.
Let's move on...
The word 'Investment' generally links us to the financial world. I don't know exactly about the others but my personal experience with this word was just like, buying something for a profit target in the future, starting a business, similar to these. Recently, I have started to think about the other ways around it. I am taking myself as an investment field and trying to invest little by little in myself. All of them are not for financial goals, some for personal growth, satisfaction, and many other aspects in life. Getting complex? Ah, wait a little bit.
I have always preferred a minimalist lifestyle. I don't have too many clothes of fancy designs. You would find similar solid colors in many t-shirts, pants with the same designs in my wardrobe. And mostly black and ash, hehehe. This is something funny. I go shopping and choose something simple and most of them turn out to be black or deep colors. I can live three to five years with a single mobile phone as long as it can bear my tortures while most of my friends keep updating their handsets from time to time. Usually, I see people picking stuff that is more than they need but I am too good in this aspect and just pick what I need or am interested in.
In my friend group, there is a friend whom we tease for his behaviors. His only aim is to invest what he got and make more money out of it, is it bad? Nope. Wait a minute, why do we make money? To fulfill our needs, right? What if you keep skipping your needs just to ensure more money with that amount. I kinda hate this, why sacrifice our needs and interests with a hope to make more money. This is a loop, you can't escape from this if you are trapped. We always push him to fulfill his needs first and then move to maximize that money. You can't always guarantee that your investments would surely give you profits, some are gonna eat your capitals too and leave you for nothing, you will be stuck deep in the loop to recover them. Avoid this loop.
So what's my point?
As a minimalist person, my requirements are always low as per my need, very selective ones. And I don't avoid them, I always ensure the best possible offers myself on those aspects. That's what I call investing in myself. If I see a donation that can make me happy, I am for it, without thinking twice. If I see that I got a craving for eating a particular food, I am gonna fulfill that anyhow, whether asking my mom to make it or the restaurant as a shortcut. Months back, I purchased a few books out of sudden interest to read them. I couldn't finish them due to many problems but I'm doing them little by little and I will because I need them for myself. What if I wanna go somewhere all of a sudden? I just need to call a few friends, let's go, everything is on me.
Recently, I invested some in self-development too, to be precise I did two things that might help me in the long run, I am confident about that. That's a direct investment in making myself a better version of me. I could have kept that money somewhere else with an opportunity to earn from them but I felt the need to invest in myself more than that. We gotta find our sweet spots to work on, to be better, to be more skilled, and for that we gotta invest however we need to whether it's financially or both with effort and time.
