A girl must shop !!

“Wednesday, 25^th of January I’ll be done with my blog entry”, I said to a friend. She replies “Sunakshi you won’t be posting it before the last minute, till the time you can delay it.” And she was right. I am here writing this in the last hour. I don’t know why I thought till this hour that I could do away without writing this. Finally, left with no choice I switched on my laptop to write this blog but I realised there is something I haven’t done in the day. Something which is much closer or dearer to my heart than this. I have NOT shopped or to compensate for that, visited a shopping website in the day.

I knew, to concentrate on blog writing I had to get done with my tour to the shopping websites or else that’s all that I would have in my mind. And now when i have come back to this word document after half an hour I finally know what I am going to write. The girls might stay hooked to this blog now and the guys might have a “Oh! Not again” expression on their faces, specially my guy friends. But guys, the “I like what you are wearing” compliment you pass on to a girl is because she puts out her heart and soul shopping for that. A guy/man standing patiently with a girl/lady shopping with him is someone who knows it correctly and accurately what is going to make her smile.

A mall and a wallet with a credit card is all that I need to live my life, to fight away the tensions and to smile conditionally. I don’t remember when was the last time I went to a mall with my dad. Not because I don’t like going to malls. Not because our timings clash. But just because he finds it safe not to go with me. One simple reason SHOPPING ! And the second one, that it’s tough for a Daddy’s daughter to accept a no. Girls like it and they want it. No ifs, no buts. No two ways about it. I think we girls are one breed who can spend a day in a mall and at times return empty handed. Get up the next day and go to the same mall, same shops and have our wallets empty. It’s not that we are stupid or blind. It’s just that we can put in any amount of hard work and dedication in this or at times act like a professional in this. It’s an art all by itself [:P].

Many around me haven’t learnt this art and I wonder how do they resist doing the same. I don’t know how many of you have actually done this. But yes, I do enter baby stores and think if I would have been smart and sensible enough to shop for myself when I was a baby what would have I picked up.

The ladies shopping for hours and hours in the malls and markets are not jobless. It is just another important aspect of their life. It's a dose which boosts them for everything else. It is not about being weird or crazy. It is about loving to pamper yourself and for me, to feel my existence.