I think "getting" and "having" becomes addictive. The real joy is when you start to simplify and give it away. Once gone items are seldom missed. The older I get, the less I want or need. Still have too much, but working on it. The things I save thinking my kids will want them someday. They don't and won't. They have their own stuff!
Betty Varner - 13 years ago
It is so easy to get caught up in the "I NEED" syndrome when it is mostly "I WANT." I was in Ukraine for a year where we had no TV commercials, no Walmarts or Costco and we couldn't even find (for example) toilet tissue. When I returned, I couldn't even walk through a supermarket and look at 20 different toilet tissue brands; it broke my heart that the NEED is so great in other countries, and the WANT so great in our country. But now years later, I am once again caught up in thinking I need more. Thank you for the reminder to search my heart first before falling into the trap of More, More, More.
Ditto to Ruth's comment.
I think "getting" and "having" becomes addictive. The real joy is when you start to simplify and give it away. Once gone items are seldom missed. The older I get, the less I want or need. Still have too much, but working on it. The things I save thinking my kids will want them someday. They don't and won't. They have their own stuff!
It is so easy to get caught up in the "I NEED" syndrome when it is mostly "I WANT." I was in Ukraine for a year where we had no TV commercials, no Walmarts or Costco and we couldn't even find (for example) toilet tissue. When I returned, I couldn't even walk through a supermarket and look at 20 different toilet tissue brands; it broke my heart that the NEED is so great in other countries, and the WANT so great in our country. But now years later, I am once again caught up in thinking I need more. Thank you for the reminder to search my heart first before falling into the trap of More, More, More.