What happened to the good stuff?
The last two months have brought substantial changes to my life, and to my view of the world. I am in flux, in change, in limbo. Evelyn Rodriguez of Crossroads Dispatches went through a similar phase lately.
The society we live in is driven by disruption, change, atomization. When you actually translate these messages, they are simply new ways of saying “buy more stuff”.
I don’t need more stuff. Given some of the plans we have for the next 12-18 months, we need less stuff; or at least more portable stuff.
And if you want disruption and atomization, live inside my mind for a day. The internal chaos of my mind that I am trying to understand is disruptive enough without having to absorb the external chaos people want to bring to my life. So I crave external calm.
The written word, on paper. The beauty in a photograph. The smell of the woods.
My life has been dictated by achieving the ephemeral, in a world completely addicted to “change for change’s sake”.
I’m tired of keeping up. So I am consciously falling behind. Life is finite, ephemeral. Stuff doesn’t matter.
Change doesn’t matter.
People matter.
Walk away from the technology for a day, a week. Live with yourself.
It’s been a revelation to me.
