Uncanny | Christie Fordham

I have a friend who just bought a 55 inch television. He is a college student and has wanted the TV for a long time. That is absolutely fine. The interesting thing about it is, as I walked into his apartment I looked around and saw all of his incredibly humble furniture. His apartment looked just like it had walked out of the worst portion of Deseret Industries. The entire apartment couldn’t have cost him more than $20 in furniture and sitting in the corner is this huge, brand new television that takes up half of his wall.

All I could do is laugh at the situation. The fact that he would use up all of his life savings on a piece of technology that wasn’t really needed just amazes me. I am not one of those people who will go big for such a shallow reason. It almost looked like a poverty stricken home owner that had won on the “Price is Right”. It was very hard for me to concentrate on the movie that we were watching because of my surroundings.

If he could have just waited for probably five more years, he could have gotten so much more for the same price. I always wonder about the world and where they’re priorities are. Are we to the point where we will do anything to buy that big screen TV, BMW, or those Lucky Jeans? Nothing of lower class is acceptable anymore.