Money and friends

A college student's nightmare, to me, is frustration with classes and managing all the work you have to do with an equal balance of haning out with friends. But, another equally important nightmare that I believe we college students have is struggle with personal finances. Personally, my finances has not been what it should be. With debt up to my eye balls and continuing to spend money on things that I do not really need, life gets hard. But, our world today makes it so hard to not spend money when you are hanging out with others. The world acts like you must go to a resturant, or have the latest video game system to have the greatest amount of friends and to be the coolest person there is. I would like to hope there is a different way around having friends and being cool. To make me happy, my mom always bought me whatever it is that I wanted as a kid. So, I guess you can say I was majorly spoiled as a kid. My mom wanted to make me happy as a kid,and after awhile, she began to get stressed out because she felt used. I never meant for that to happen and I do not like asking things from other people most of the time. I really believe that we try to impress people with all the things we are able to do with money instead of showing them how much we really care about them. Money does not need to be used to impress your firends with. We try to spend so much money to impress others when saving and putting our money to good use is something I believe that we are supposed to do. I do not have a great plan for saving money or anything like that. I would recommend reading Dave Ramsey's books on money however. But, what I really want to mention here is to not look at your friends as people that you have to impress, but people who are in your life to help you in this crazy world that we live in. I even recommend having your friends hold you accountable with money. Not by sharing all your bank information or telling them how much money you have, but to tell you when they think your spending to much. I have had friends who said that your not spending enought money, and I was dumb enough to believe them. Be sure to keep control of your money and balance that in your life. Be with friends and part of other activities not to please people, but to have fun and to enjoy life on earth theway God intended. This may not be much of a blog, but sharing my thoughts on things going on in my life that I have had to change around and I hope that this may encourage you as well.