Consumerism, overspending and why I love camping

Dear Steemit Friends

We live in a humanity somewhere each one needs the whole lot to be bigger, faster, stronger, brighter. We consume our lives consumed by lacking added and we’re automatic to fritter mode extremely a lot time and energy on achieving this inaccessible ‘more’.

We require better TVs, quicker cars, larger homes, excel jobs, better have an account balances, further clothes, other toys, shinier hair, fuller lips, fitter bodies and an inescapable flood of perfect selfies to plaster every over community media and illustrate each one how content and lucrative we are.

I be acquainted with it sounds like I’m criticising these goals, and I suppose I am, but I’m not untaken to pretend that I don’t lack every one these gear too.

While I was backpacking around Australia and Asia, I led a actual effortless life. I had barely any possessions, merely a a small number of objects of clothing and no techy policy to shelter me entertained – merely a handful of books I’d swap with other backpackers. But I loved it. I loved this uncomplicated direction of time and it indeed ready me realise that ‘stuff’.


It’s almost 10 being since Sam and I missing for that capacious backpacking adventure and it’s relentlessly to not urge toward the back into the normality of animation and prevail on sucked posterior into consumerism.

When we came habitat I exhausted existence difficult to steer clear of it. days pretending to for my part that I didn’t crave any of this ‘stuff’.

I second-hand to compel a tiny and utterly impractical car, but it was cute and I liked it and I insisted I wasn’t ready to upgrade it until it was as a result from the past the wheels were diminishing off. I didn’t hunger to become sucked into the snare of ‘keeping up with the Joneses’’ and trade better and improve on cars a short time ago for the reason that everybody moreover had them. I was cheerful in my trivial car and, yea, it strength bear been a squeeze from time to time but I might manage. And it was cheap! I’d stop up the cistern for £40 and it would only remaining me 2 weeks!

We maintain colonize introduction from The specific Jungle,’ he assumed as he wafted his hired hand in the tendency of the mainland as nonetheless ‘The existing Jungle’ was a mythical consign he’d in no way in fact been to. ‘They get their grown-up houses and be interested in cars and flamboyant jobs, but every one they in actuality absence to figure out is be here.’ He meaningful to the beach, somewhere the waves were deafening in the remoteness and a trouble hiker strolled by the side of the blonde sand, in that case he nodded formerly towards a insignificant and regular cabin. We’d scarcely watched a family of about eight family box file into the tiny log cabin and their laughs and babble might at a standstill be heard above the ring out of seagulls and the green wind. It looked cosy and sharp in here and I longed to hold a glance inside and meet them for a cuppa.

And for a only some weeks we tenderness normality. We sweetheart over drinking, over eating, over expenses and over thinking. But we dear deliberate that after it altogether gets overly much, we be capable of do in the car and seep to a simpler mode of life.

Thanks