I’m not that guy. I never was that guy. I don’t think anyone ever got that right. 4/29/2020

Be your own BFF.

“What’s yours is mine and what’s mine is mine. “

AVasser

The Stuff Theory. Everyone does everything for stuff.” What if you don’t want stuff or you don’t want their stuff? Artists create stuff to express themselves, but, in the end, they sell their stuff to support themselves, to buy other stuff because the want what fame, fortune or to simply get their point across. It still all stuff.

In America stuff is based on money. Money, therefore, is the root of all stuff. American attitudes towards acquiring money, and stuff, are unscrupulous as often as they are decent. 50/50 might be a reasonable mix but human society has demonstrated “Let the buyer beware” trumps compassion and decency.

I’m guilty. I like stuff. Why else would I have 20 hammers, dozens of cups and saucers, a collection of rice bowls or more water bottles than reasonable. I’m obsessive. I admit it but does my stuff gathering create more than clutter opposed to some one who feels they need millions of dollars that do nothing more than make them a millionaire. Maybe the money is simply cluttering a bank vault but if their shady business practices or low wages to their employees helped them amass the money, maybe somethings wrong.

Babies are born wanting stuff. Now, in a different environment, they wail. They want the warmth for the womb Never getting that back, they learn , to get other stuff; milk, a diaper change, attention, a cuddle. So it begins.

I can’t give up my stuff, inanimate as it is. Each thing has some thought, some memory attached but approaching the line between stuff and clutter I’m forced to clear the corners of my mind. Let it go. Let it go. Throw it out. Wait. I can sell it. . Donate it. Abandon it to a cold corner. put it in a will for a relative.

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