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Contentment or greed?

November 25, 2011 By Deanna Piercy Leave a Comment

Today is Black Friday and great masses of humanity (?) began descending upon retail establishments as early as yesterday evening, before the dishes were even washed after the annual Thanksgiving feast. In addition to the usual pushing and shoving, reports are surfacing of fights, tasering and even pepper spray! I tell you, people are nuts. There are many reasons I wouldn’t dream of shopping on Black Friday, one of which is that I really don’t want my opinion of people to drop any further. If I personally witnessed these crazypants examples of creed and stupidity I think I’d have to seriously consider following Thoreau’s example and go live by myself in the woods. Well, I’d take my family (some of them) but you know what I mean.

Today is also Buy Nothing Day and that, my friends, is an event I heartily endorse. For one single day of the year can’t we get off the consumerism carousel and just be? Yesterday we gave thanks for all our blessings but today we are supposed to go out and buy more stuff? That just doesn’t make sense to me.

One of  my friends posted this quote today:

“There are two ways to get enough: one is to continue to accumulate more and more. 
The other is to desire less.”
~G.K. Chesterton
When I read that I immediately thought of my grandmother. She was truly the most contented person I’ve ever known. Everyone gave up asking her what she wanted for Christmas because her answer was always, “I have everything I need.” She had truly mastered the notion of “enough” and I can’t help but think of her when I hear of the crowds fighting over made-in-China Walmart crap. 
We gathered with extended family for our traditional Thanksgiving meal last night and had a great time. Today I am cooking turkey, ham and all the trimmings for my parents and children. We will gather together to enjoy a good meal, share stories and just relax together. I’ve held off on the Christmas music thus far but I think today is a good time to pull out the cds. Or maybe I’ll put on a Christmas movie to play in the background. It will be a relaxed, low-key day. And that, my friends, is how I intend to spend this Black Friday. 

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