I was quite busy with one thing or another and this blog remained dormant for a long time. What is the provocation for this post now? An issue of Time dated 23 March 2015. The article is entitled ," The Joy of Less". I have not yet completed reading the article. The photos accompanying the said article set me thinking . The country is USA. Since , here in India, we copy unabashedly everything American what I write will be relevant for my own countrymen. A study reveals that 75% of the garages surveyed are filled with so many things that the owners couldn't park their cars inside. All sorts of things are dumped in the garages as the dwelling places are already full of things . It is stated that professional organizers help homeowners decide which possessions are worth saving and which can be purged. It is stated that US children make up 3.1% of the world kids, but buy 40% of the toys. The point I want to make is that this is really a disease , the mania to buy and possess even when you don't need them. This disease is one of the important reasons for our environmental degradation. Nowadays it is easy to purchase anything sitting at home thanks to Amazon.com. Many of us are tempted to buy online thanks to the advertisement techniques to which we easily succumb. The result : Our home is filled with lots of things which we no longer use. Instead of we possessing things , the things possess us. What is the result ? Clutter everywhere including our own minds. This should stop. Now I feel that after all Mahatma Gandhi whom we have abandoned is correct. He would not waste even a bit of paper. The American way of consumption is wrong . We should rid ourselves of that viral infection.
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