What is Living

What’s the one luxury you can’t live without?

By definition

“Living” primarily refers to the condition of being alive, the pursuit of a livelihood to sustain oneself, or the state of residing somewhere. Beyond its literal dictionary definitions, “living” takes on deeply philosophical and personal meanings depending on how you choose to shape your day-to-day existence.

I’ve been doing a lot of living without lately. I spent last weekend at our house that had a large sofa, pillows, blankets, coffee maker, vacuum cleaner, a wet, dry vac, and a birdfeeder.

I am alive here and typing this. So I lived without a lot of things. Being in the middle of a large move these items were luxury items.

It may sound like a snarky response, but it is actually not. A country is rich as ours is embarrassing. How many homeless people we have. To a person living on the street a blanket is a luxury item.

Both my kids in Germany live without a car. That’s a luxury item to them. They don’t need it. They get around fine on trains.

During the moving process, I start stop taking things to Goodwill. I simply put them out in the curb. There is an adage that goes – one man’s junk is another person‘s treasure.

I have no idea what someone’s going to do with that beat up recliner the cats destroyed.

But I couldn’t live without my imagination.