HOW SHOULD MONEY BE SPENT? ON FOOD OR ACCESSORIES?

 

Before reading any further, do well to answer this question:

Between food and accessories, which one can you do without?

Accessories are items that are meant to decorate and beautify, and though they are not usually essential, accessories play a major role in making an individual look more gorgeous, beautiful/handsome, and well put together.

On the other hand, food is any nutritious substance that people or animals eat or drink or that plants absorb in order to maintain life and growth.

Accessories give more importance to our personal style, taste, and preferences while the importance of food for life is almost similar to the need for oxygen for living. If the lack of oxygen can kill living beings in minutes, then lack of food consumption can kill them in days.

However, the importance of food is not only limited to sustaining life, though, but all these other functions also would not matter without food serving its main function. Without food, one can’t survive, no matter the number of accessories one has.

Simply put, while accessories are one’s wants, food is one’s basic need.

No doubt that human life is dependent upon food consumption. Without food, there is no life. Our body needs to do more than just survive. In other words, we need nutrients from food to keep our bodies in good shape, nutrients like proteins, calcium, carbohydrates, and vitamins which help develop our bodies to successfully perform life functions.

In favor of the need to spend money on food over accessories, Hippocrates, a Greek physician compared food with medicine - both are necessary to save lives. According to Hippocrates, “Let food be thy medicine, let medicine be thy food.” This is to show how important food is to us as humans. An accessory is nothing but an extra. As a matter of fact, some people don’t accessorize at all.

This is not to say we shouldn’t spend money on accessorizing and beautifying ourselves, but there’s a need to spend money on food than accessories because accessories are merely compliments to its subject. But food is life.

In conclusion, here’s a little food for thought: When we die, the only thing we are going to take with us is the last food we consumed, not the last accessory we wore.

Name: Ekanem, Kingsley Augustine 

State Code: OS/22B/0145

Institution: Akwa Ibom State University (AKSU)

Course of Study: Civil Engineering 

State of Origin: Akwa Ibom