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Ours is a culture of excess. The relentless barrage from the media tells us that our happiness is dependent upon our ability to consume and conform.
There’s no glamour in doing without. We’re consistently told there are ways we can improve our lives and that we should enter a perpetual arms race of purchasing in order to demonstrate success and worth.
Contentment isn’t part of the equation. Achieving a sense of ‘enough‘ isn’t feasible since there’s a continual manufactured need for more, better, newer. But far from this commonly accepted mode of stuff-acquisition, I think the rarity of something’s occurrence serves to enhance its enjoyment.
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