I'm sitting here tonight, munching on some Dots candies, and musing on life. It's Sunday night, after all. It's the night of the week I hate most. The night when I know I have to get up in the early morning and return to the grindstone that is my life.
I could sit here and think about why I continually do these things, but the answer is very simple: I need money. Everything costs money. Food. Shelter. Electricity. Water. The necessities. A responsible adult does what is required to make sure they have the basic necessities.
Then there are those other items in my life, that aren't necessities, that could possibly be cut out. Eating out from time-to-time. Cable. Internet. WoW. Shopping. Trips. When you hear of people simplifying their lives, often those are the things they drop off first. Those are the things that they deem unimportant.
*sigh* But that's not me. I don't really want to cancel cable. I like tv. It's cheaper than going to the movies. And reading makes me sleepy after awhile. I could cancel WoW....but that also ends up being cheaper than going out for entertainment. I could cut back on shopping. Ok, I actually have, since Christmas exhausted me on shopping. But I like knowing that I have a couple bucks to go buy a sweater periodically, if I wanted.
I don't know. I think it comes down to perception, and what one really enjoys. I have a certain lifestyle, and I like it. I can't reconcile the idea that to give up one thing I dislike (the day-to-day grind) would require giving up the other things I do like. Seems to me like it's more effective to suck-it-up-and-deal.
Then again, all I really want is to sleep in, anyways.
(I was going to come on tonight and blog about how I didn't come back sooner from my Holiday blog-break because I had a nasty stomach virus that knocked me down for awhile. But a different blog came out of my fingers. Go figure.)
