So, the prompt asks if everything-or at least most-of what we buy is unnecessary. Yes. It is. Even the things we consider ‘necessary’ aren’t needed. No matter what, we all die, and everything we have, need, or know will evaporate into nothingness. Oblivion is inevitable.
Food, water, and oxygen. That’s what is needed to stay alive. The only ‘necessary’ things in life. That said, there is absolutely no conceivable reason for anything else. Food grows out of the ground. It walks. We don’t need to create artificial foods; they aren’t necessary. Yet we make them. Why? Simple whim, I suppose.
No, you do not need that pink towel. You don’t even need a towel, period. You can air dry. You don’t need a non-stick pan, either. NOTHING is really needed. I cannot stress that enough. You will die. The people who know you will die. The only way to be remembered is to do something with your life, but have you done that? I doubt it. Not yet, at least. But even then, if you did something worthy of being remembered for, eventually, our whole world will be dead. Our sun will burn out. Zombie apocalypse. Aliens. Nobody knows how, but it will end someday. So, yeah, nothing we buy is necessary.
We may be an accidental speck in an enormous void, but stop focusing on that. Who gives a crap if its necessary? Why must it be useful?
Once, I was in the car with my grandma. A Weezer song was on, (I’m pretty sure that’s what it was) and they were singing this one sort of sound.. Like “Ah, ah, ah” or something, and my grandma changes the station. I happen to like this song, so I look at her and ask, “You don’t like Weezer?”. She says no, I don’t like them saying that same thing over and over. I mean, what’s the point of it?
What’s the point of anything? What’s the point of your excessive amount of potholders? What’s the point of all your work out videos that you don’t use? What’s the point in all the broken sewing machines you have? Huh? What. Is. The. Freaking. Point. ?
There is no point. But don’t focus on that. Focus on the fact that you have a consciousness. Focus on the fact that you can DO things. Focus on the fact that you have a will, that you can say you did something. Focus on people. Focus on people most of all.
I would like to disclose that I do not believe in religion. I think it’s dumb, it draws us apart, it creates invisible lines that when crossed causes war and hatred. Plus, scientifically it doesn’t make sense. I can’t wrap my head around it. But, if I had to have a religion, it would be people, because what is better to live for than what we really are?
People are freaking amazing. I mean, I can’t stand people. Too many warped ideas and rules and restrictions and societal molds to fit into and mean, rude, buttheads and labels and “I don’t like you because of a physical/mental/emotional/ differential variable thing that is stupid and I realize its stupid but people will judge me if I don’t judge you and that’s stupid too and everybody knows its stupid but it still happens”es. But put all that aside, people are great. People are what give people a point.
I read this book called ‘Evidence Of Things Not Seen’ by Lindsey Lane. This kid goes missing, and the whole book is the sheriff interviewing people in town about what they think happened to him. (theres other stuff too, but basically that‘s whats going on… its a really good book. You should read it) Anyways, this kid was always writing in this notebook, and throughout the book, bits of paper show up. One, at the beginning, says something along the lines of: We are each made up of tiny little particles, and every time we meet somebody, little particles of us stick to them and little particles of them stick to us and as we meet more people and do more and experience more, we get more and more particles, and in the end, that’s how we get whole. Something like that. I thought it was freaking beautiful.
No, most of the things we buy aren’t ‘necessary’, but I don’t care, you shouldn’t care. Stop caring about that. Care about something important, like music or paintings or puppies. Just care in general about good things and making sure they continue to happen. Quit asking why, and start asking why not.
the problems not the problem 