maybe it’s the economy, maybe it’s the weather, but today reminded me that i don’t need a whole lot to be happy.
a temperate, calm afternoon. great friends. good conversation. a long walk around town. a little coffee and a nice meal.
that’s it. that’s all my afternoon consisted of, and i wouldn’t have ever wanted anything more.
given our current economic situation, i can only hope that as we all move forward that we can redefine the “american dream”. somewhere along the way things got skewed and suddenly the simplistic white picket fence turned into a gulfstream and a bentley. i hope we can all be reminded that we really don’t need a whole lot to be content. as i was walking around town, i thought about how great it must have been 60 years ago, not but a decade after our last depression, when people smiled as they passed and were happy to see each other. there was community. you rode your bike to the nearest general store to get ice cream on a cone, and life was good. there was no such thing as a 10,000 square foot home. people only had what they needed, nothing more.
what changed? when did we become a society of excess? and why? i just don’t get it. example: do you really wear every item of clothing in your closet? probably not. then why so much? and why is so much so acceptable? i can almost fit everything i own into my 4-door sedan and i still feel like i have too many things.
i think people need to reconsider where they’re getting their happiness from. i think we need to start fresh and simplify. i hope the “american dream” can become what it once was: not too much, but just enough. and personally, i miss the look of a white picket fence.
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1 steph wrote:
yep. i like it. i like it a lot. i’d take a white picket fence over a white porche anyday.