Are you familiar with the saying that
starts with, “Eat from the good china” and lists numerous other
ways to enjoy yourself? The idea is, of course that you should live
life to the fullest, always. Agreed. But you know, that china thing
got me thinking....
I have some china that was given to me.
I use it daily but not because of some stupid saying. I just figure
there's no point in having/buying something you're not going to
actually use. How stupid and wasteful are we, as a society, that we
have plates we don't use sitting in a cupboard we never open just
because it's tradition to do so? No wonder no one respects us any
more.
And what makes the good china any
better than the everyday plates, anyway? Who decided that china
should have an elevated position over other dishware? Didn't that
rumor get started eons ago by some guy trying to sell china? I bet.
And ya, it's pretty. It's also not durable or practical at all. It
breaks if you breathe too hard on it. How is that considered high
quality again? By whose standards?
Why do we constantly fall for this
illusion of product grandeur presented by our consumerist society?
Crazy, isn't it? I've even personally witnessed people getting angry
with each other over brand choice. I've noticed that those arguments
usually have to do with motorized vehicles.
Apparently, you don't really
have a motorcycle unless it's a Harley. You don't really
have a sports car unless it's a Mustang. And apparently, those cute
little plates you absolutely adore but bought at dollar tree can't
hold a candle to fine china.
Who says?
Who put manufacturers in charge of
deciding what we like or what we prefer anyway? Nobody. We just
blindly go along with it. Sadly, most of us won't even admit they've
got our number and punch it in daily to their advantage. They're so
good at it, we don't even see it sometimes!
Maybe that's because most of these
ideas about product quality are so firmly rooted in our society that
they're accepted as fact. Meanwhile, we're turning our noses up at
perfectly decent food, clothing, etc. because they're simply below
our so called standards.
Folks, there are people out there in
the big, wide world drinking from mud puddles and glad it rained so
they could. There are little children going to bed hungry every
night, literally starving to death. And here we are, arguing over
which bottled water/soda pop/beer/wine tastes best.
We're pathetic.
And speaking of wine, please stop
swilling it, swishing it, sniffing it and turning your snooty nose up
at the “bad” year. It all means absolutely nothing in the scheme
of things. Be glad you have some wine if you like it. Personally, I
think it all tastes like fruity ear wax. But maybe I just “don't
know my wines.” Hah!
In other words, what a bunch of
absolute hooey we let ourselves get roped into by people trying to sell us the goods. Stuff is just stuff.
It's all the same. Folks, please. Be who you are. Like what you like.
You don't have to “Be a Pepper” unless you really want to and
FYI, it doesn't make you special if you are.
Have it your way? You bet. That one I
agree with.
But in the end, it's all just a pile of
junk riding in the trash truck to the dump or being crushed at the
recycling center to make more stuff we don't really need isn't it?
The only quality we should be worried
about can be found within the content of our own character. Got a lot
to work on in that area myself, as witnessed by the judgmental slant
to this post. So, off to do just that!
Here's to finding peace through self improvement!
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