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There was a man in India who was traveling on a train, and he had all of his possesion in a bag which was sitting in the luggage compartment above him. He was very tired, but couldn’t fall asleep for fear someone would steal everything he owned when he closed his eyes. After hours of fighting to keep his eyes opened he eventually closed his eyes, but shortly after he woke up again realizing he almost fell into a deep sleep. He checked to see if the bag was still there. The bag was gone. He yelled, “Thank Goodness! Now I can finally sleep without worrying about that bag.”

Basically the moral of the story is material possesions only add extra stress and worry in our lives.

I thought it was relevant to the article.

I like to keep it simple, and when I get tempted to buy something I don’t really need, the easiest way for me not to buy it is to just put it down and stop thinking about it.

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Have you seen Michael Moore’s movie Capitalism: A love story? It could have been called ‘Consumerism – a love story.’ It speaks to big corporations and media and how we have all been programmed to buy buy buy in an insane effort to keep up with the Joneses. And also how credit works to trap people. It made me ANGRY! I feel used by the system – advertisers getting into my mind and influencing me to buy stuff I don’t need. How dare they use my ego against me!

I’m now firmly on the minimalist path.

Great article!
Ailie