We Really Do Have Everything

It’s amazing to take into account the everyday things we take for granted. We really do have everything. As a planet, especially as an American. I needed some more tissues a couple days ago and so I clicked a few buttons, typed a few letters and the tissues arrived today. It’s amazing. Life is amazing. I have my issues just like everyone, but my issues have never been food. I mean even at my lowest, I could still afford a $5 Hot-n-Ready. It’s amazing one can survive on almost nothing these days. I guess in some senses surviving easier makes for more emotional pain and turmoil. It seems to me, just a few decades ago aloneness meant death. Now people don’t need each other as much. That’s just one of the downsides of having everything.

This never ceasing need for more is a strange thing to contemplate. Where does it come from? Do even the trees always need more? Is every living thing here a virus in its own right? There is enough land for everyone, enough housing, but we still experience homelessness. Even with access to everything people give up. Maybe when we don’t have to work that hard for food and survival it’s just not as meaningful. Maybe that’s how we’ve gotten ourselves into some of the situations we are in as a global community, as a civilization. Maybe we are being toyed with. Maybe we have everything we need and just don’t realize it. We could be slaves though. We could be in a simulation. Who really knows, but I had a banana covered in honey and peanut butter today and it was amazing. The banana an extraordinary fruit flown in from the tropics, the peanuts unearthed after growing and shipped to a warehouse, ground and packaged and shipped out to hundreds of stores, the honey collected and processed by millions of bees in Houston off a peach tree farm. We really do have everything.

It’s Christmas Eve. I’m sitting in my camper. It’s over 80 degrees and I can feel myself start to sweat. I stand up and flick a switch. Cold air comes rushing into the camper. I’m pampered. I have everything. In a few minutes I’ll get into my car and travel at 70 mph to Ceder Hill, a trip of over 160 miles round trip and I’ll make that in a single night. I have air conditioning in my car as well. There’s a nice sound system and I have access to millions of titles of songs and books at only a click away. We really do have everything.

I can contact anyone at any time, yet these days I prefer to be alone. I’ll see my wonderful family tomorrow. We will eat and exchange some gifts, prolly watch some TV and sit around together. Life is good. We really do have everything.