perceptions + quotes + reality =
A to Z Challenge~
As a
daughter I regularly wanted to display the love for my mom by purchasing her a
gift. So on special occasions I inquire about the present she’d want or need. Very seldom would she have a request or need rather
most often she’d say she didn’t need a thing-that any offering was unnecessary.
Really?
How could that be? In my juvenile mind I was unable to grasp that notion that a
person could not ‘want’ for something particularly in the very materialist
world in which we live.
Fast
forward to today where understanding walks hand in hand with age. When a similar
query is posed to me, most often my response matches that of my mom’s; ‘A gift
is unnecessary’.
As my
forties have bowled into my early 50’s the citation, ‘Live simply so others may
simply live.” reverberates in my mind. How many pairs of pants or shoes is
critical for one person? How many sweaters are obligatory when truly only one
garment can be worn at any one time? How much clutter does a house hold?
I comprehend
and appreciate the ‘unnecessary’… as most things are just that; NOT essential. Therefore,
the response my mom would offer which was exasperating to hear was accurate as
Mom’s typically are- She gets even wiser the older I become. Imagine that!
“Civilization is a limitless
multiplication of unnecessary necessities”
By Mark Twain
