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It ain’t easy sometimes!
The world makes it hard to live simply. It doesn’t like the idea because it rains on the consumer parade, makes people feel guilty and defensive, and takes profits away from corporations.
But what makes it worse for me is … I’m an addict!
I was addicted to TV and everything it had to sell by the time I was nine. I love expensive cameras and can’t stay away from camera stores. I get a thrill out of buying a new piece of software – and a faster computer - and more peripherals. I love the smell of the inside of a new car. I want enough money to do whatever I feel like. I want a boat – a BIG boat. I want to trek around Katmandu. Oh God, I want …
I’ve come to believe that we are all addicted to American consumerism and we need help!
They say confession is good for the soul, and Alcoholics Anonymous' fifth step states that “We admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.” So in that spirit, I and others will be admitting in these short articles, how we’ve been messing-up, and that changing our lives has been really hard work! And just like alcoholics who ‘slip’, or fall off the wagon, especially in ‘slippery places’ like bars, we all slip while trying to live simply – especially in slippery places like camera stores (I just need some fiiilm!) and of course the malls.
Most of us are really on a journey toward Christian simplicity, rather than having already arrived, and our hope is that by sharing some our journeys we’ll be able to help each other walk our talk, and convince others to join us.
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