i was washing my face where random thoughts would enter and leave as they please, when a wee small guilty poked, nudged me...waste.
it began like this.
my brother-in-law playfully, in somewhat, chagrin humour thanked me for keeping the lovely jade tree he gave me one christmas. He had previously come upon a nemo print that was in the 'garage sale' pile with a price tag on it. He had bought this for the girls one Christmas.
it's not so much the amount of 'stuff' we have. we have lots of stuff. but more the neglect we have toward our 'stuff'.
not so much is treasured anymore, and the treasured get down graded so quickly sometimes, that there is no real joy and pride in having the things we have, the things we are given, or the things we buy.
there is way too much of everything in this world and our senses are numb. too much information, technology, junk, toxins, to-do's, stress, madness, yes even pleasures. - too much 'stuff'.
there are now thousands? more? books, seminars, new age philosophies, new psychology, on how to organize, deal with, get rid of, live with, all this 'stuff'.
we are such an accumulating, all consuming, greedy society. and it is showing in the attitudes of the desensitized mini-me's we are having.
we really don't need so much 'stuff'. what we need most is the sharing of ideas, human interaction, community, good network of family and friends, health, time, lots of laughter, joy, good spirit and strong bonds.
'stuff' like that, that we really need, is scarce to too many of us.
as we are all busy busy, doing doing, paying paying blindly into a crazed world of capitalism and consumption that is killing our planet, our consciousness, our sanity...
just another random sub-conscious knowing to put into action.
always restless, never bored.
