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People like to give me life advices as though I did not already know them. Ignorance isn't not knowing. It's not wanting to know. I've noticed whenever I see loving couples, I get skeptical. I would look at the girl & wonder, she isn't all that special. Maybe she's pretty but that's about it. Nothing to write home about. & then I look at the guy. He doesn't look like a suitable partner for her. I'm certain there's nothing that they have in common at all. Perhaps she's with him because he has lots of money? Or it could be that I'm witnessing the presence of 'opposites attract' at its very finest. I don't know. I'll never know. But then I remember this economic concept I read about sometime ago. It is known as 'positional goods'. The concept positional goods dictates that an object is only valued by the possessor because it’s not possessed by others. By that, it means only the owner of the item would deem somethi...