In Jack's words, if you are not producing, you are consuming.
This is my life experience since I started working, and this life experience has been exaggerated the last 3 weeks. In fact, every year during the holiday season, this experience was exaggerated, and it constituted the dark side of me.
I don't believe in the modern economic measurement of double digit growth in businesses, because I think it is not sustainable, and it is irresponsible stewardship of the earth and future generations.
However, I hopelessly fell victim to American consumerism. During the Christmas and New Year holidays, I would spend hours shopping online for things I didn't really need, mostly clothing and accessories, just for the sake of finding good deals. Though I never really checked out my orders, I didn't really break my buck. At the end of all that, I was frustrated at my foolishness, because of the waste of time and energy. After all, one only wears one outfit and one pair of shoes at one time.
Luckily I seemed to have stumbled into a solution. In the later part of the vacation period, I started reading Yoga books that were laying around for months. I watched a DVD on digital photography using Canon T4i, which was my Christmas present from Jack. I practiced the piano and I blogged. When I was productive in this way, I was no longer obsessed with finding the best looking and most inexpensive pair of shoes.
No wonder there are 5 working days in a week. It all makes sense, doesn't it?
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