My current mantra is "Having more is not being more"This sentence gets me thinking a lot. It reminds me the shopaholic and obsessive spender and consumer that this society has installed in me. And I try to fight it, but I always fail.
Everything in our daily lives revolves around spending-socializing with friends, going out, staying in, every single little thing. If I dare to challenge myself to those extreme "Spend-nothing-days/weeks" I will no doubt fail.
But this sentence, it revokes something very important for me-spiritual growth. It reminds me that sometimes spiritual growth is slowed down by obsessive spending on new and shiny objects which keep us distracted only for short time. Its like drugs, the short-term buzz of the new object we own and taken by our own vanity, it takes us high up in the air.
Being more takes hard work, it doesn't have a short term buzz, rather hours and days of devoted work on a cause and not succumbing to disillusionment.
That's why I have this mantra and repeat it every day...my very own little "prayer".
ahhh what I just read here makes me feel safer and it realy made my day! It's great to see that there are other minds thinking about this in the sam matter at this age.
ReplyDeleteWhen you loose the assets you realize how very few people understand this matter.
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I agree, ooooh I so much agree. I feel sad for myself completely. This summer I have tried 3 times to have 0 EUR day, and even tough I had everything I needed, I failed. Shiny little objects as you say Kate, are an excuse for our small souls. And the typical respond when someone asks you: " OO cool shoes, new ones?" is:" This old things! I bought them a month ago" So monthly old shoes become old ones, thing are new only if they are days old. We only spend, spend, spend...I don't know if I can say that we have time to consume it!
ReplyDeleteSAD...i like your new mantra, i will repeat it now when the winter discounts begin:(