The air we breathe. The food we eat. The water we drink.
All of these are most defintely things you can’t live without.
Family, loved ones and friends.
These are things that life wouldn’t be the same without.
Hobbies, art, wonderment.
These are things that life would have little quality without.
Then there’s everything else.
When someone says to me, they couldn’t live without their phone, or a cosmetic item or any of those things I consider the set dressing of life, it makes me wonder why.
Why have we become such a world where those trinkets are the things we place our very existence on? Wouldn’t it be nice just to strip things back a little again and bask in the simpler things. Instead of the dinging of social media notifications we can enjoy the singing of the birds again. Instead spending thousands on products so we like what we see when we look in the mirror we can look back up at the sky again.
Let’s face it, we don’t need expensive toys to live. We don’t need the fanciest clothes or the biggest house. A luxury car may take you places but you’ll never be transported quite the way you are when you learn something new.
I say all these things knowing very well I am someone who rarely has their phone out of their hand. I like the best consoles and I like buying new things as much as the next person. As a new month dawns in 2026 I just thought it would be nice to live a little differently for a while.
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