Why I Actually Hate The Holidays..

The older I get, the more I hate the holidays; Especially Thanksgiving. Thanksgiving is a holiday that essentially celebrates genocide, and we do this by killing 300,000,000 turkeys a year. That’s right... Three hundred million! Then, before the night is over after we get done saying how grateful we are, we go and spend a shit-ton of money on gifts for the people we’re grateful for. Some of us even put ourselves into debt because of this. It’s a huge consumerism trap, and I’m finally breaking free. Some people may think I’m just crazy, but hear me out. Without giving a huge history lecture, basically, a group of white refugees came to a new country fleeing their corrupt government. The natives greeted them with a feast and blessings, welcoming them with open arms. Then the white men went on to almost wipe out their entire race, raping their women and stealing their land. Now, we celebrate these events by buying a turkey. Here’s a little history video about that. After…

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Simplify – Getting Back To Basics

Minimalism. Until recently, I didn’t understand what that word meant. I knew it meant you didn’t have a lot of stuff, but I didn’t really understand the importance of it. Until now. I have been engulfed in this journey of self-development and self-discovery when I stumbled across the documentary Minimalism on Netflix. I was really into watching documentaries about health and veganism at the time and this came up on my recommended videos. At the time I was thinking, “I don’t know what this has to do with health, but I’ll give it a go.” I was instantly intrigued. I knew I was going to have to minimize in order to move across the country in my little Saturn Ion, but I was doing that because I had to. It wasn’t because I had fully understood that having less physical things, makes more room for the intangible things. I have only begun to scratch the surface on my minimalist journey. When I moved to Oregon from Illinois, I only brought…

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