The amazing-ness of Spring Break has begun. I slept approx. 12 hours last night to try and recover from the deficit I had been accumulating.
I also picked up a for pleasure book for the first time in a great while. It was New Seeds of Contemplation, by Thomas Merton, which I had shelved due to school.
Appropriately enough, today's reading was about consumption.
"The contemplative life certainly does not demand a self-righteous contempt for the habits and diversions of ordinary people. But nevertheless, no man who seeks liberation and light in solitude, no man who seeks spiritual freedom, can afford to yield passively to all the appeals of a society of salesmen, advertisors, and consumers. There is no doubt that life cannot be lived on a human level without certain legitimate pleasures. But to say that all the pleasures which offer themselves to us as necessities are now "legitimate" is quite another story."
Which is a good word to me today as I was trying to legitimize a purchase I don't need to make. Today will be another groceries-only shopping day. Well, groceries and a hat, which one of my classmates rationalized is a medical necessity for someone who has a history of skin cancer. And I'm choosing to agree with her.
0 comments:
Post a Comment