Alternate Vision

even under the reigns of a meagre student budget, we tend to accumulate crap. Odds and ends that evolved beings like him have to come realize we don't need. But yet somehow, somewhere guided by our subconscious mind we tend to accumulate material possessions that determine our happiness. I won't play devil's advocate here and argue the alternative viewpoint which is that some of these material possessions do infact make life easier and that in certain situations pragmatism should override idealism. I've ceazed this opportunity of moving houses to purge the unnecessary, often unused articles I have aggregated over the past year. But what I do hold on to is dear to me and if possible hope never to part with. Artwork, books, drums, kitchen stuff and a few other basic essentials that I would take with me to the grave if I could. But the rest is all transient and to which I bear no emotional attachment. That said, I'm no extremist or maverick. In this post modern milieu where materialism battles minimalism, I've never picked a side and stuck with it. Instead I find myself traversing those blurred lines of neither here nor there, an odd mix of simplistic living vaguely characteristic of the beat generation with subtle undercurrents of materialist tendencies. Its like being caught in between two worlds- one which uses material possessions to fill spiritual voids and the other which seeks existential truths to do the same.