Consumption – Humans & the Full Circle Movement

Consumption.

Why do we consume?

We all consume. We consume because we are meant to consume.

As humans, we consume for many different types of reasons, and therefore we consume in many different types of ways.
Some might say that we consume because it keeps us alive, and keeps us going.
We consume food, water, and shelter for our bare necessities, our needs.

But then we consume on what we choose to consume. Like what we watch, listen to, but our mind’s focus on, what we decide to do for or during work, conversations we choose to consume with others, the types of food/drinks we consume, and of course our materialistic forms of consumption.

We consume wisdom, facts or fiction, we consume products, people, places, and things.

We all consume to express ourselves, to engage with others, and even more so we consume to connect our consumptions with the belief that they will bring to us what we believe we want for ourselves.

Books to believe we are smarter, more imaginative, more educated, more improved, more wiser, more smarter, – just more ways that we believe we are going to be worth and enough for that idea image of ourselves that fears the opposite.

Food to get stronger, feel happier, feel joy by consuming something attractive, feel accomplished by finishing a meal, believe we’re included by connecting over a meal, escaping the moment.

Places to become something of ourselves. Believe that working at a certain job, having a career in a certain field, going on vacation to run away from the person you no longer like who you have become, trying to immerse yourself into a structured garden, thinking you are now more organized on your life choices, or consuming a forest that has been around for over a hundred years and has grown multiple ecosystems, in which you consume the idea that you could as well one day accomplish something so magnificent that everyone can walk in the footsteps of your legacy.

We consume to feed the idea that we are disconnecting from fear. Fear of less than, fear of weaker, fear of not worthy of the reflection we get from others; the fear that we are not enough for our own minds.

We consume to believe, to have a sense of hope, that we too can be something that we want to be, and not the parts of us that we do not want to feel, see, or give to others.

We consume to express ourselves, and the express the parts of us that brings us joy, or the viewing of what “could be”, the inspiration that we too, one day, could be just as complete, as whole, as one – with ourselves. As if, in that moment, we are with the people, places, and things that we see those answers in. Those reflections of who we truly are, if we just accepted ourselves as we are in the moment of time.

So continue to consume, to get inspired, to process, and to be in awe with the people, places, and things of the world. And one day, with nobody, not a thing, and no place to go, you will be seen as the person that lives in the mind of the others you have connected with. Who will then continue to visit the places that remind them of you, buy the things that remind them of the things you used to wear or decorate your home with, or spend time with the people that remind them of you. Since everything that we come across is just a reflection of ourselves, it’s just another process to remind us that we are whole.
That everything is life always comes full circle as we know it.