Tag: meaningful

Content consumption

Posted on by philipdodson

We used to read a newspaper in the morning or watch TV news at 9pm once a day.

Now we have 24-hour news channels, online news (fake and real), social media and more.

We used to call our friends once a week and share photos of our holiday once a year with family or friends.

Now we Snapchat them every few moments and upload pictures of ourselves, our lunch, our pets, our bikini, drops of rain running down windows, paint drying…you get the picture.

We used to read a magazine once a week or at the Doctor’s waiting room.

Now we have millions of blog sites, podcasts, and other online articles and information.

So what?

Has all this content consumption made any difference to our lives? Are we more purposeful? More healthy? Better informed? More educated? More represented? freer? More in control? Live with more meaning? More alive? More respectful? More empathetic? More anything that the content elicits we should do. Does any of this gorging of words and images get applied to our lives?

Perhaps we are just consumed by content, like some addictive disease and forgetting the essential thing, to actually live our lives in the present moment, the only moment we are actually alive. Is this the opium to avoid life?

One pair of jeans

Posted on by philipdodson

None of us knows a woman or a man who owns just one pair of jeans or one pair of shoes or one coat or one of almost any item.

Many of us have accumulated spares of almost everything, just in case the item breaks or becomes lost or whatever other reason.

So we work all day to accumulate trinkets to exchange them online or at shopping malls for goods we will probably not really need or use. Even with food, we do the same, buying more than we need or can consume. As much as 1/3 of the average weekly food shop ends up in the bin.

Perhaps if we only had what we really needed, repaired things, shared, used 2nd hand stuff and were more careful with what we consumed, we’d be able to work less or spend more time doing things that matter.

A joyful life will not be found at a shopping mall or a supermarket or in our fridge.

Consume less, live more and own one pair of jeans.