Maybe it's just a weird week. Three times in
past three days, I've bumped into someone I know and started a conversation with, "Hey, how ARE you?" Nothing unusual about that. But responses were all discussions of problems with STUFF. Cars. Computers. Sprinkling systems. Lawnmowers. Burglar alarms. Phones. Everybody's stuff was causing headaches. Okay, so I guess short answer to question would have been, "I have a headache."
It's not that I didn't want to hear story behind headache--it's that headache wouldn't have existed without all that stuff.
Is your stuff causing you headaches? Do you spend more time and energy and money on maintaining your things than on improving yourself? It's easy to get caught up in it, isn't it?
I don't want to complain about stuff. I'd rather not have it.
Okay, so we have to have a home, some form of transportation, and some way to interact with world. But maybe we don't need biggest, fastest, hippest version of all three.
Take a look at your stuff, and thinkabout what it takes to maintain it. Now, think about time and energy you spend investing in yourself and your own development as an Excellent Human.
Who's winner....you or your STUFF?
Rabindranath Tagore, Indian poet, philosopher, painter, songwriter, composer and Nobel laureate, said this:
"The sparrow is sorry for peacock at burden of his tail."
Which one are you...the sparrow or peacock?
