So\u2026we have had friends who have done this and it gets frustrating after awhile:<\/p>\n
You can\u2019t go bowling with your friends because you \u201ccan\u2019t afford it.\u201d
You can\u2019t go out dinner with your friends at an inexpensive restaurant because you \u201chave no money.\u201d
You can\u2019t go to Water World or Elitches or skiing once a year because you \u201care broke.\u201d<\/p>\n
BUT<\/p>\n
You buy Windows 7 the day it comes out.
You buy the same CD twice because when you pre-bought it the two extra songs weren\u2019t on it.
You buy a Droid the month it comes out.<\/p>\n
Now I\u2019m (not) sorry, but don\u2019t you think your priorities are a BIT messed up? You seem to care more about technology in any form than you do any relationship. <\/p>\n
Don\u2019t get me wrong, I\u2019m not saying you need to spend money to have a good time, but expecting your friends to buy your dinner every time you go out with them because you \u201chave no money\u201d and then the next time you see them you\u2019re carrying around a new Droid? Come on. Get real. Grow up and get your priorities straight! If you care more about this technology than your friends who are your real friends? The people in your life or the technology in your life? <\/p>\n
God tells us to store up treasures in heaven not on earth. What is going to carry over with you to heaven? The people in your life or the technology in your life? I\u2019m not saying I\u2019m not guilty or that I have never done this. What I am saying is that when you choose technology CONSISTENTLY over your relationships with people (spending time with them doing activities that cost a little bit of money) what are you really choosing? You are choosing things over people. You are choosing dust over love.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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