[lit-ideas] Re: Sustained Incongruencies
- From: "Andy Amago" <aamago@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 2 Apr 2006 20:32:10 -0400
I don't shop much either, but more for Buddhist, metaphysical reasons. I've
never really had clutter, but for the last seven or so years I've been working
on living completely in the present. One way to do that, it seems to me, is to
get rid of the material junk from the past that I never use. I've gotten rid
of a huge amount of stuff. The attic is 100% empty, closets are tidy, I threw
out all my college notebooks and never missed them, but I seem to have reached
a glass ceiling of the few things that I can't get rid of. My mother sold her
house and moved to Florida and she took with her only what she could fit in her
relatively small car. It kind of made me think how mortal all this junk is,
how unnecessary, how energy draining. Putting everything together, I've become
very anti-materialist, so needless to say I never shop, except for food-type
necessities. You've seen pictures of my house, so I don't carry
anti-materialism to excess (I love my 65" TV). I doubt that
I'll ever reach my goal of having only what I use, but I'll keep working on
it.
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Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Sustained Incongruencies
In a message dated 4/2/2006 6:45:15 P.M. Central Daylight Time,
aamago@xxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:
Andy: Are you suggesting that Walmart pumps out fray gas from its vents, so
after people shop there they get belligerent? Interesting idea.
<g>
Hi,
Almost everyone I know HATES to shop at Walmart--esp the Super Walmart! In
fact, sometimes I go in to get something, get too tired just looking at all the
stuff and leave without it...and, if I DO try to get it, just walking the whole
store makes me feel like I've exercised for the day...and I've not done a thing
but pick up a few things! The 'good' thing is that I shop less and less...we
make do with what we have a lot more than I would if we were just running to
the little shop down the street! (which is usually the grocery store...but one
of the managers there we know from scouts and he is working his way through
school so my son likes to go there...and since it is not as large as Walmart
but often has the necessities of what we need...we go there more often!)
We talk about how so many of us leave Walmart without buying a thing because it
is either exhausting or overwhelming at my work, sometimes, and I'm not the
only one!
So--when I was creating the little scenario...and thinking why someone who
worked at Walmart might dream grand dreams of being a great painter yet not do
a thing about it, all of the above thought did make me wonder!
Best,
Marlena in Missouri
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