I am an avreich from Kiryat Sefer. I was looking for a specific product that was very important. I asked around about where I could buy it, and people told me, “You’ll never find it here. You need to go to a mall.”
This did not make sense to me at all. I don’t go to malls. It is not suitable at all for shemiras einayim to go to these places. I thought that if I can’t get to the product, then the product will have to get to me. I would pay some delivery boy a big sum of money to get it for me. I had made up my mind to pay whatever the cost would be in order to refrain from going to such places, but just before I went ahead with that plan, I decided to at least check to see if I could get it in the nearby store.
I checked, and wonder of wonders, the product was there in a store a few mere steps away from my home, at a good price, without any extra effort or expense.
This was yet another time that I discovered that one does not lose out from shemiras einayim, one only gains. I gained, and the owner of the store gained as well...
