Honestly, 5000 a month is not enough to sustain in Pune but that is what my dad sends me and will keep sending for the years to come. I have a room mate and his father sends him upto 9000 a month but when he is really serious and honest, he says 9000 a month is really not enough. One of my other friends gets 12000-15000 a month and mostly she's cribbing about how less she gets. A college mate who's worked the all way through says he stays very comfortably in 2500 a month only. I don't know how much is enough and I'm not trying to answer that question either.
A friend called Karan Malhotra of mine just renovated his room. It will be very difficult to explain what changes he made in his room because I'm no professional interior decorator and so I dont't have the terminology it requires. It will, however, I guess, be sufficient if I say that he has made his room much more luxurious than what it was like before. The bed has been replaced with a larger and a softer one. The furniture is smoother and shinier and the bathrooms and the wardrobes look royal. Karan is happy but not content. He still wants to buy that bed in the store that was the costliest. It is softer, smoother and shinier according to him. He wants to be more comfortable.
Akshit Mehta isn't really happy with the new swimming pool with slides that's been built on his old farm house. He wants tp pull down the entire farm house and rebuild it. "I will do it when I have enough money of my own" he says.
Do I personally have no needs, wants or aspirations? Or is it wrong or right to have them or too many of them? I do not know. What I know however is that life is not about satisfying your needs and wants. Life is about being satisfied with yourself, with or instead of them.
