Had to do some introspection when someone said
'we've purchased dinner'.. and
'I'll have to buy my lunch'... since I felt very uncomfortable hearing that.
When I have to go to some commercial outlet for having my breakfast/lunch/dinner, I prefer to say
'I'll have a biscuit pack' or
'I want to have my food' or
'I had my food in the hotel' or
'I've taken parcel of food. I'll have it at home'. I explicitly try to avoid the words
'purchase' and
'buy', when it comes to talking about the food I'm going to eat.
Guess the root cause was my belief that food, water and air are so basic amenities for human existance, that money is just a means to meet the end and thus, by no means should assume greater importance than the end. And when someone tries to flaunt that they have money and treat the basic amenities like food as something lower than the money they have, I find it irritating and somehow dont relate to the person. In general, I tend to give a negative mark for someone who is trying to be living because of money. I feel they can only exist.
It has happened many a times that though someone has money, he or she could not make it get them the food, for various reasons, like, may be an ATM not working or a bharat bandh or a strike or a curfew or a busy day full of meetings. Hence as a Hindi saying rightly goes '
daane daane pe likha hai.. khanevale ka naam', usage of these commercial words seem to indicate that the person has somewhere down the line, forgotten than we are indebted to the nature (as neutralists call) or God (for the traditionally religious) or luck (for those atheists) for giving us these.
Rumblings of a sensitive mind? conservative thinking? or just plain old-fashioned?.. :D.. Thats me..
