I recently received an email from the Wilderness society & in it was a display of their 2009 calender & diary. It got me to thinking, who in this day & age needs a hard copy calender & diary? Just how many of these things are published every year & then subsequently thrown out the next? Just think about it, where do they all go to? Even if printed on recycled paper they are rarely 100% recycled & still expend a lot of energy being manufactured & distributed. If you have a computer or PDA why on earth would need a calendar or a diary? They just become another one of those things with no real purpose other than to look nice, or to scribble over to make ourselves look busy & important.
Things.....so many things.....we're slaves to them aren't we? I know the saying goes "slaves to money" but it's really to "things", for we fool ourselves into thinking we need more & more money to acquire more & more things. We justify how hard we work by admiring the things we (think we) own & we work so hard to buy the things we (think we) need. It's almost a form of worship, of idolatry. I understand that these "things" can become an extension of our "self", a way of expressing ourselves to the outside world but aren't we just the same person without them?........well aren't we?
Things.....so many things.....we're slaves to them aren't we? I know the saying goes "slaves to money" but it's really to "things", for we fool ourselves into thinking we need more & more money to acquire more & more things. We justify how hard we work by admiring the things we (think we) own & we work so hard to buy the things we (think we) need. It's almost a form of worship, of idolatry. I understand that these "things" can become an extension of our "self", a way of expressing ourselves to the outside world but aren't we just the same person without them?........well aren't we?
It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?
- Henry David Thoreau-
Our life is frittered away by detail... simplify, simplify.
-Henry David Thoreau-
1 comment:
Great post! Beautiful image. Imagine if we were all focused on more than just acquiring stuff...I often think about that - imagine if our focus shifted, the game changed and became much more meaningful? In part this is why I started my blog to try and make a journal of my thoughts and imaginings; of my stories and creations, which are in part things but not all; to try to escape what man has made for himself - it is actually really boring (well at least it is to me and at worst soul destroying!).
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