tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8590632287693471938.post4405784790679551538..comments2012-10-09T14:11:25.225-07:00Comments on Gutsy Girl's Adventures: Survival of the most FUNCTIONAL?Erika Urbanskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03965565277262331098noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8590632287693471938.post-40172150737996725902010-10-08T09:01:03.987-07:002010-10-08T09:01:03.987-07:00I agree that we are a DYING society. We are a soc...I agree that we are a DYING society. We are a society that doesn't know how to deal with the heaps of stress that are piled on us. And when the infomercials and ads and billboards are all saying there is a new way to help make our day-to-day activities be more "functional" or make the process of achieving some goal easier, people are suffering in such silent desperation that they will buy anything and will justify that purchase if it gives them just the slightest glimmer of hope. We have no better historical example of this irrationality than President Bush told the American people, while grieving 9/11 and trying to make sense of the world, that we should shop??? Seriously?! It speaks directly to the fallacy of neoliberal consumerism. I'm willing to bet that the "stuff" we spent hours researching on the internet and all our money buying are not going to be thing things we are thinking about as we lay on our deathbed. We're not going to say, "I'm sure glad I got that new TV last year so my family will have something to hold onto when I'm gone." Life is supposed to be about making memories and you can't make memories if you don't do SOMETHING for yourself and for/with the people you love. So, maybe I'm a little off topic from just getting the newest fitness gadgets that are out on the market, but I think it's a part of the same underlying mentality.<br /><br />I think this post ties all of your previous posts together so well. We should be playing. We should be strong and allow our strength [physical, mental, emotional] to guide us toward new adventures. We should write down and say out loud what those new adventures will be. And we should be patient with ourselves as we actively reach for our goals, as well as stay open to the possibility of going new directions that you might not have predicted. There is nothing that we can "buy" that will give us these things. We have to just start by "doing." <br /><br />As a persistent procrastinator, I can attest that the first step is almost always the hardest. But what I usually find, is that once I've taken that first step, the task suddenly doesn't feel so overwhelming or unmanageable. One of these days, I hope to let go of my procrastination tendencies altogether. For now, I'm going to go run, since I've been putting it off for the last 2 hours ;o) Thanks E, for being such an inspiration to me!!!Kellyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08116376393539396310noreply@blogger.com