Ok. So. Today someone I met did something that really bugged me. The thing is, I dont get annoyed very easily. Im extremely calm and collected during most any situation. I have my sensitive areas of course, but thats neither here nor there. Today though, a group of people I just met, friends of the people who are allowing me to park in their yard, and I were hanging out in my bus. A little later, after everyone left, one of the guys who stayed behind because he had other matters to attend to sat across from me in the bus. He obviously noticed my minimalistic lifestyle and told me, you know, you could probably get like five thousand dollars If you scrap this thing, why dont you try and get yourself a house, put a down payment on a car etc. I proceeded to attempt to get him to understand, then I noticed what he was doing with his hands while he asked me, and I quote,why do you choose to live in poverty when you can easily obtain more? What was he doing you ask? He had one of my rolls of electrical tape in his hands and was unraveling it and mashing it into a electrical tape ball. My survival instincts kicked in. I went on a serious rant which sounded something like this. Dude, you ask me why Im living in poverty as you take one of my extremely minimal belongings and you just waste it!? Did you not understand when you saw me MacGyver a guitar pick out of an old Walgreens card along with the very same pot pipe youre currently using that I constructed using the aluminum from a soda can and electrical tape, that I value my belongings? How about after I explained to you the fundamentals of why I live the way I do? Or what about after you realized that what was in the bus was EVERYTHING that I own however minimal it may be? It goes further than my belongings, you wasted my tape? Of all things! When one values an instrument of any sort one takes care of it and attempts to fix it when it breaks. Tape in my world is GOLD. You just balled up and tarnished a Rolex for equivalence sake! I then attempted to get him to understand how having nothing makes me happy. So long as Im fed, and comfortable under a roof. Im on top of the world. Ive had so much less than I do now, I value where I am in life and what instruments Ive chosen to accompany me. My explanation was definitely much longer due to the fact that I felt the need for him to understand, after what he did. I know most of you are like, wtf, hes ranting about electrical tape. But if you ever meet someone like myself, remember this post. Thanks for lIstening. Peace.
Posted on: Thu, 07 Aug 2014 04:13:38 +0000
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