t i m e .

. . Confession - I’m not really much of a birthday gal. Or some other holidays. Conerning a common mainstream force to buy presents. The more expensive, the more valuable. The bigger, The better. The more, the merrier. Buäch. . But I realized that though a lot of us share this aversion of consumption & materialism and actually want to quit them - we are still afraid to fail expectations of others. So much – that we end up going on with the money flow, the rushed shopping, the economy feeding and the forced material gestures. . Don’t get me wrong – I love making presents. Probably T O O much. To let mainstream take the magic of it away from me. . So – grossed out by all the last minute shopping madness and the desperate need of everybody to find anything, no matter what, just not to be „emptyhanded“ - I made a choice. From now on, whenever someone asks me what I’d wish for my birthday- I don’t say something cheesy as „Oh only time, thats enough.“ Too risky. It’s so hard to break the habits & not to come with a give away. Easy to ignore the wish and just spend money for a ‚little something’. So, I’m being pretty materialistic here and say – „A selfmade card. Please.“ . Why..? T h e process of creating a card is a symbol for the t i m e you donate. T h e fact that you probably see no sense in it and don’t like doing handicrafts at all, is a stoutly symbol for the l o v e you dedicate. A N D so – T h e card is a piece of your heart that you’re sharing. . So it’s not just you spending money. It’s you mindfully adressing the most precious ‚give away’ in your life – Your T I M E. . . .Happy Christmas, ya’ll. . . •

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