I have the most ridiculous dilemma in the world right now. Part of me wants to buy a new laptop, and part of me doesn’t. Part of me is being seduced by materialism, and part of me can’t stop imagining the people suffering in Darfur, or reminding myself that people all over the world don’t have enough food or clean water.
But you know…as I’m sitting here right now, thinking about all of this and truly reflecting on it, I think I may have come up with my answer. I will not be seduced by this culture. I keep telling myself that I don’t want to be changed down to my computer, that I don’t want to sit for hours staring at a screen, and now I won’t. As I prepare myself for a new culture in Guatemala, this is my first big step dismissing the very worst aspects of American culture.
Besides, at the end of my life, it will not please me to know that I had every fuckin’ version of Apple Macintosh laptop ever made since 2003. What will please me are the things I DID with my life, the PEOPLE I INTERACTED with, and the SIMPLICITY with which I lived.
It’s so easy if we truly THINK. STOP and THINK.
Thankfully, I have done just that tonight.
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