Investment...

I remember the first time I got a job I wanted to buy me some tennis shoes with my first payment, back in the day I thought I had a notion of what money could buy, I used to save money for anything that I wanted, I never liked asking my parents for things that I didn't need.

Since shoes and clothes are things that one needs my parents always paid for them, so even if I knew how much they cost I never had to feel the price. I must admit that I'm not really a person that likes expensive clothes or anything, except for shoes and tennis, I really like the nice ones. So obviously they are expensive.

So when I got my first check I went with my dad to buy some tennis since the ones I had were almost dead. I was looking around and found ones that I really liked, when I saw the price I realized that they costed more than I had made in that long week of work and my dad was just laughing when I told him. Since then my parents either helped me buy them or I bought cheaper ones.

Fast forward to this past Saturday and I decided to buy new ones since I don't have that many expenses right now, so I had some spare money (not really, that is for my laptop, but it can wait :P). Since I started running again I decided to buy running shoes, I knew they would be expensive, but in the long run it would be a better investment, the ones I had weren't meant to run and I lost a few nails because of it (6 so far, in 4 fingers, so I have lost them two times in the same fingers).

I went to a sports store and was looking for tennis and as always I didn't like them (I like them simple, not flashy), and most of them were too expensive. I found some in the 100 dollars range, and I found ones that I liked (by discarding method), I remembered what Angelica told me about getting ones half a number bigger and I did, tried them and they felt awesome, so much better than the ones I had and so I bought them.

This Sunday I went out to run and they felt awesome, I ran a little more than 8 Km in like 50 minutes and my feet didn't hurt like they used to with my other tennis. So far I think that the investment was well worth it, although I felt the hit when I paid them since I wasn't planning on buying them for at least another month.

Today I'll give them the next test since yesterday I rested, I'm just hoping that it won't be raining in the night XD (it has been raining for the last week, and it will rain all this week because a hurricane)