Welcome to Day 17. Today’s LIVE LIFE NOW Journey takes us to LESS IS MORE. Today we make our way out of Uluwatu, a quiet surfer hang out to the town of Ubud. – famous for shopping and Eat Pray Love where Julia Roberts navigated her way through her mid life crisis exploring Hinduism and Nasi goreng. After a 2-hour traffic jam we are finally in the center of Ubud a street market-shopping mecca. Store upon store upon store of trinkets, sarongs, and silver. Tourists flood every alleyway looking for souveniors at bargain basement prices. I am here looking for gifts to take back to my office staff. I am leaving them for close to 3 weeks and the least I can do is bring them back a treasure from Bali. As I make my way through the street vendors I feel less and less motivated to purchase anything. There is so much of everything and I find myself needing none of it. 20 years ago I would have spent all day bargaining and wanting for everything. Not today. Today I want to stretch in the sun, meditate to soothing music, read the book I have just started entitled Fear by Thich Nhat Hanh. Today I just want to BE. As I look at where I have been and where I am now my materialistic wants are few. I have brought to Bali very few T-shirts, one pair of sandals, and a couple skirts. I wear one necklace and no earrings. I feel free of stuff. As I look at all this stuff all I can think of is how am I going to carry this stuff back with me. Where I am going to put this stuff. This stuff is going to weigh me down. Stuff both material and emotional are the baggage of life that we choose to carry with us or we choose to unload. Today as I walk through the mass of stalls of stuff I choose to lighten my load. I want to bring back something but what I choose is light and freeing. 4 pairs of earrings that fit easily in my pocket. I bargain only enough to do the dance. I want the vendor to feel like she is leading the dance. I pay twice as much as I could have but to me what money I gave up was 2 days salary for this woman. No big deal for me but 3-4 meals for her family. What do you choose to carry with you that is actually weighing you down. I love owning a very old car because I can park anywhere without worrying. So what if my car gets yet another ding. I love that I am more concerned with water conservation then if my lawn is dying. So what if my lawn dies. I love that I have reached a point in my life that I don’t feel that I need to accumulate stuff on my vacation. I choose instead to accumulate memories. Wonderful memories don’t weigh a thing. Today lighten your load. Choose to weigh less by letting something go. Perhaps it is material. Perhaps it is emotional. Find your wings. Less is More.
Posted on: Thu, 05 Jun 2014 13:09:13 +0000
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