I have always prided in the fact that I live in the future and believe that the best days are yet to come, but sometimes I am forced to reconsider my stance.
The front-page headlines of newspapers screamed minimum taxifare in Sharjah will be Dh10. That puts 1998 into the privileged category of good old days, at least from a salaried person’s point of view, because the maximum fare or flat rate during that period was Dh5. Effectively, for the present minimum fare you could travel to any point in Sharjah and return home.
A glass of tea cost merely 50 fils as against Dh1 at present. Also one could fill a small car’s fuel tank with Dh50 and groceries cost only a fraction of what they cost now.
I know many Gulf veterans would want to correct me by arguing that the 1998 period was not exactly “good old days” and that tag rightfully belongs to the period a few decades before it. Now going by my own experience and the rising cost of living I will have to agree with them.
The thought that 2010 will look greener in 2020 should bring a smile to our faces.
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