What is your favorite pastime? Is it shopping? Does this truly count as a life changing experience?
My point here is that most of the people we work with are having life experiences through shopping. Lives composed of someone else's idea of who or what they should be.
Dictated by the latest fad or phase of something to buy.
What are real life experiences? Are they brought to you by marketing agents that get you to buy things that are not enriching your life? More positive life experiences could be a music venue you go to, or the art museum to view pleasing sights.
Can the feeling about buying stuff replace the feelings about people or event experiences? These are some of the questions we as professional organizers struggle with each and every day. The mountains of stuff that takes a toll on both emotional and physical energy. The so-called "bigger and better" way of life with more stuff, a never ending quest to buy. These are the life experiences that many people are having now. Brought to you by the relentless marketing machines.
Our company tries to make a difference by showing ways to live with less. This is an uphill battle, considering the average person watches 4.25 hours of TV per day filled with over an hour of commercials.
See if this scenario sounds familiar... Buy, Buy, Buy... disconnect life's real experience to spend time going to the "maul" (aka mall). Be like everyone else on your block. Advertise for the "Marketing Mafia" with your logo branded life. Live in a house 5 times bigger than you need, only to spend all of your free time away from your family to pay the mortgage and energy bills. Pay for all of the conveniences because you claim you have no time. Your plans are not to cut back and look at the way your lifestyle robs the planet of all the world's natural resources. Your just too damn busy to pay attention. Someone else will do it, right? WRONG...
Wake yourself up! This is a vicious circle that will take your real experience of life. Play superficially now, then pay later.
Choose this week to stop shopping. Find things to do without paying to bring something back into the home. Your life experiences can include walks, adventures, biking, storytelling, and challenging ways to have fun without spending money.
I'd rather have a real life experience then one sold to me by someone else.
10/23/2007
I Would Rather Have Experiences
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