Excess

Dear Material Excess,

As Cee Lo Green says it, Fuck You. I'm really tired of being told what to buy and what to have and how my life would be greater if I had more things. I don't need things. I need love. Things don't give me love. People do. Please stop telling me and others that I need to have shit to be happy in life.

Absolut, stop sponsoring Pride. Alcohol is a depressant. If you want people to feel happy about themselves and their sexuality, stop telling people to get drunk and/or alter their consciousness in order to celebrate themselves. It's fucked up. Shame on you. SHAME! When did product placement take priority over sexual identity? When did turning your brain off conquer telling the people in power that we're pissed off and won't take their shit anymore?

I'm grateful for what I have. I have no qualms saying that I've lived and continue to live a fairly charmed and blessed life. I've been able to travel and obtain a high level of education. But I also know how it feels to work three jobs and sell myself to make a buck. Not to get the next Apple product, but to pay bills and do what I need to do to survive and thrive.

So I'm saying no. I don't want more things. I don't need things to make my life better. I take what I need, and a few things extra to sweeten the pot and to help others. The saying goes, time is money. I'd rather spend my valuable time with people I care about than an app for an iPhone. So fuck material excess and fuck people who feed into it and on it.

Honestly,
Scott

P.S. Here's Cee Lo's video for your viewing pleasure