Dilema of a Twelve Year Old

Let’s say that you’re twelve years old and get an allowance of P100 a day. Hypothetically, the government taxes you 30% of your allowance. But that’s okay, you’re twelve and you don’t really need to spend on anything except for the occasional inuman at your house a month and maybe a lunch or dinner out twice a month and maybe a trip to the mountain or beach. Being a twelve year old commuter, you also have to shell out for the commute to your child labor facility.



Stay with me.





Then, completely hypothetically, let’s say that you wanted to travel Asia before the age of 15. As it is, you’re just barely on your way to saving enough hypothetical money to get the money within 3 years.



Now let’s say that you quit the child labor facility and decided to sell your soul for twice the amount. With this amount of money plus the money already saved up, you could feasibly travel Asia by the age of thirteen (two years early!). BUT, and this is completely hypothetical, what if you’ve also been dreaming of buying a motorcycle since you took motorcycle classes when you were nine or ten.



Here’s the big question.



(And this is completely hypothetical.)



Would it be so bad to stick to the original 3 year Asia plan and buy a brand new motorcycle for about P1000? Or to cut the Asia plan into 2 separate Asia plan and do Southeast Asia first? Or to buy the motorcycle 2nd hand and sell it before Asia and end up spending about P120-170 for a bike that you could only own for a year? What would your twelve year old do?



Papagulo: Why does he need a motorcycle? He doesn’t! It’s just really, really cool! But then again, does he really NEED to travel Asia either?



A twelve year old soul awaits your comments.