Sometimes we need a bigger prespective
I want… I need… How would you finish these beginnings of a sentence? How do you think your neighbor would finish the sentence? What about the person on the other side of town? The other side of the state? The other side of the country? The other side of the world? We live in a country where the majority of us would probably finish those sentences with… …a new car. …a new, higher paying job. …a new house. …more education. …a spouse. …new clothes/phone/TV/etc. What if you lived in such a place where you finished the sentence with… …clean water. …fresh food. …medicine for simple illnesses. …two sets of clothes. …basic education. Beyond how we finish the sentence, maybe our shift needs to be on how we begin the sentence. What if we began each sentence with… We want… We need… In the USA, we have much more than we really need. Yes, I know we pair back and purge our things, but even then, we still have more and have access to more things that most. We hav