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How’s That Hamster Wheel Treatin Ya?

// March 3rd, 2009 // My Life, My Thoughts

I love hamsters… they are just too cute and cuddly! They are also some pretty energetic little guys! I was at a pet shop a while back and there are hamster cages that have tons of tubes running everywhere! But no matter how many tubes there are… there is always the good old standby…The Hamster Wheel!

For some reason the little guys just love em… they may explore the tunnels for a while but they never fail to put the miles on the hamster wheel…

I started looking at my life over the past few months… and realized… I tend stay on the hamster wheel quite a lot myself… I think maybe it’s because we get popped into our little suburban cages, all so close to each other. We get trapped by the routine… go to work… so you can keep the lights on and get through another month… and hopefully have enough money to get gas so that you can go to work for another month.

To me the hamster wheel represents all the things I do just to get through the day.. so I can get to tomorrow… How lame is that? Tomorrow will not be much different than today so whats the hurry… OK..OK… so the weekend!… we work all week so we can get to the weekend!… so what do you do then?

So I am sitting watching TV… and for a few weeks I have been thinking about the whole hamster wheel routine… and it dawns on me… THIS IS THE HAMSTER WHEEL!… by paying for cable TV I am actually paying for somone to constantly dangle the things that I don’t have in front of me for hours every day, convincing me that what I have is not enough and I want more and I want it now!… Bigger TV’s, Faster Internet, Cooler Cars, Better, Faster, Stronger… More More MORE!!!

Now that I could see what was going on I started paying attention and a whole new world opened up to my eyes… I could see that I was just running on autopilot, I just bumble around watching TV buying whatever they tell me buy… getting excited about whatever they tell me to be excited about… getting angry at what they are angry about… and then when I am done with my “TV Hamster Wheel” I just drive to my “Work Hamster Wheel” and pay for all the things that I apparently “Must Have!”

So… I Cut off the Cable… No TV… 4 weeks now! And guess what? I am suddenly pretty satisifed and getting alot of things done that have been neglected for years. Just in the past few weeks we have reduced our spending… We are stepping off the hamster wheel and beginning to live our life without the constant barrage of “buy this” “you need this” “this is better than what you have” So… How’s That Hamster Wheel Treatin Ya? Ready to step off?

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