Panini days
I not sure if you are in the same era as me. But does “Panini” ring a bell to you ?
If it does i think this should be a nice little read.
I am sure you remember how keen you are as a kid waiting for that next packet of Panini stickers. That anticipation of opening it and discovering the new stickers that you can add to your collection.
When i was young i remember my dad buys the Panini for us. Now i remember clearly. Panini is something that is available in Singapore that time when i was young. My dad works in Singapore while I studied in Johor Bahru. I remember how happy i would be when i wake up seeing Panini stickers in its package.
When you are young you do not know how expensive these things are actually. you keep on asking your parents to buy and you thought its not much for them to afford. but i think it is not as cheap as we used to think it is.
I come across panini again now at the age of 28. Instead of animal stickers.. now they have Hannah Montana on them. or High School musical 3 on them. I look at them in 7-11. It is about 1.50 per packet. it maynot be much now to me because i am an adult and earning a 5 digit pay. but i reckon it was expensive back then to my dad who tries to buy it for me.
Now i buy these panini stuff in bulk. ten packets at a time. I open them … but they no longer give me that great surge of joy like it did when i was younger. Its the same panini game but a whole lot of changes in the perspectives.
The $1.50 worth of happiness when you were young is much bigger than the $2,000 worth of happiness buying a LCD TV now.
Joy is so much simpler back then. And so much more meaningful.
Panini has thought me a lesson. The lesson of joy.
