How Frugal
The other day I saw many wise guys on HBO talking about the climate change and conservation of all that has been spoke about I find one topic intriguing and close to me. Frugality.
One of the wise guy said 'frugality is not being poor' but haven't we all assume it is?!
All this while I knew something about frugality is right before I got swept across by a tide of abundance, I worked I had money so why be frugal?
We all mistake, lack of funds the reason to behave cheaply (read frugality) which is an immediate understanding, but looking at the bigger picture it has a far reaching effect if we stop associating money rather economy so closely with it. Frugality is about having a no waste lifestyle which is idyllic in today's term.
Speaking at a broader term our religious teachings about self restraints leads to frugality and conservation in general but we have totally goofed up with the context as well as the content.
Creativity creeps in when we adhere to frugal ways of living and have a sense of progression without unwanted outputs and using up what we term as waste as by products. Human skill sets are a result of the need to do better than survive, and as part of the nature and the natural process the human resource can be looked as unlimited bounty of creativity, knowledge and energy source.
Well I know my thoughts are loosely based on subjects too vast and layered , but I am just looking at frugality in totality and not a part of the whole.
But to paint a picture I will quote an example, how life was frugal when I was a kid, my grandmother would prepare relishes and dishes out of vegetable peels and refuse. A cow was feed everything else that she couldn't fancy cooking and the rest, which she had no time to cook or can't be fed to the cow went in as raw material for her vegetable garden. Plastic was looked with much wrath by her. A sound cycle that we all have rubbished and forgotten thanks to more money and less time.
I will like to spend more time reading this topic and get back on some useful insights.
Comments
I think we mistake frugality to be miserliness. Once we realise that earth's natural resources are not endless, then frugality will begin to make sense.
As a person said in the same documentary, there is no need to feel sad about being here when we have reached such an alarming stage. We should rather feel proud to be the generation that started reversing the effects with the responsibility to change it all.