In my student days, when I was very poor, I sometimes daydreamed about being rich and having an amazingly affluent lifestyle. I imagined being such a(n) (1)_____member of society that my name would turn up in the newspaper columns every time I attended a party. I pictured myself traveling to (2)_____ places in faraway lands and being a patron of the finest restaurants. I would forget no detail when planning (3)______parties for five hundred of my closest friends. There would be nothing (4)________in my life, not even an ordinary, average toaster. No, I would have the finest toasters, the biggest houses, the most glamorous wardrobe-the best. And I would own a unique art collection-no prints for me-only one-of-a-kind masterpieces by famous artists. Of course, I would be quite (5)____whenever I had the urge, I would buy diamond jewelry or jump into my Olympic-size pool. But I promised myself that I wouldn't be totally self- (6) I'd also give (7)_____ amounts of money to help the poor and underprivileged. I would not be (8)____to their needs. And being modest as well as generous, I'd always be an anonymous donor". After graduating, I began earning money, and I stopped daydreaming about being rich. Having some wages to spend, I had finally (9)____ which I was forced to be extremely (10)____ (eld from a life of endless budgeting, a life in Of course, I am still thrifty because I don't want to waste my hard-earned money. But now that I have enough money to be comfortable, I no longer need to create fictitious situations in which I'm super-rich.
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