As I research for travel health insurance, purchase items for the journey, receive my new backpack that I ordered, the excitement grows. Things start to become more real! I leave for India in two weeks! Since I didn’t have to watch the kiddies today, I dedicated the day to figuring out my health insurance plan. While researching different plans I experienced a felling of genuine happiness from an unusual source . I felt warmth inside and a sense of connectedness, which I long to feel every day. The source was from finding out that I would receive more rewards from my new Premium Sapphire Credit Card than I was originally told. I was originally explained that if I spent $3,000 in 3 months I will receive $200. While researching travel insurance, I had called chase to ask a quick question about the travel insurance they would be providing me. When I was on the phone the banker explained that if I spend $3,000 in 3 months I will not receive $200, I would actually receive $500 or approximately $625 towards a flight! After the banker told me that, I lit up, I felt all warm and gooey inside. I realized that Chase will be basically paying for my flight home. I ran upstairs immediately with pure joy in my heart to tell my dad the fantastic news. As I told my dad the news I felt this connected to him as we spoke. I was able to look into his left eye (his receiving eye) and I was really able to connect to him and myself. It felt amazing. Eye contact is something that I tend to have difficulty when I stray off my path. I tend to be more irritable, not connected to myself and to others. So I was grateful for this moment. I was a little confused why I became so elated when I found out that chase will be basically paying for my flight home since I been practicing nonattachment and working on finding happiness from within, not from an outside source. My excitement was directly due to an attachment from a material item, money, which did surprise me. Living in the western society and giving up all attachments towards material objects, relationships or beliefs is such an arduous task for me. For anyone that knows me, having attachments is still is a huge challenge for me, especially attachments to old ideas and now money. I always have this fear that I will not have enough money, especially because I will be spending a lot soon, or this constant worrying about how I am going to make money, and what I will do to make income when I return home. I just have to remember that this is a practice and obviously I have to keep on practicing on trusting that the universe will provide for me as long as I make right choices and give back to the universe!
Try not to spend too much and charge it to the credit card. In time, you will eventually have to pay it all back. Paying the minimum payments on credit cards is a trick for credit card companies to bilk cardholders out of more money.
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