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WotD: Feast or famine
In life, it’s either feast or famine.
What I mean by that is we either have too much of something or too little.
It wasn’t that long ago when getting your hands on a surgical mask would cost you an arm and a leg.
Feast or famine means we either have too much of something or too little.
That’s often the way life is; there’s little balance all the time.
Companies realized that everything came from China, profiteers had bought up everything and were jacking the price up sky-high, and medical workers on the front lines were being told to use the same PPE for days at a time.
Now, they’re practically giving masks away on the street.
I tell you, there’s little balance in life; it’s either feast or famine out there.
Christmas 2021 is fast approaching.
Christmas is the perfect example of feast or famine.
People open their wallets and spend, spend, spend like it’s going out of fashion.
Then, once the clock strikes midnight and the year changes, everything stops dead.
People will make New Year’s resolutions to quit drinking, smoking, eating junk food, spending money on frivolous things, and swearing.
Stores of all sizes will go from the hustle and bustle to a deserted wasteland after the zombie apocalypse.
Heck, have you heard of the Dry January phenomenon?
Well, some fools out there decide not to drink any alcohol during January.
Think about this for a moment.
The credit card bills from all that Christmas spending begin showing up in January.
Right when people need a stiff drink or seven, they resolve not to touch the stuff.
If life has taught me anything, feast or famine is the normal state of affairs, and there is no sense.
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