Yet more on contentment and stuff...

This post is from Saturday. i forgot to copy it over from Xanga after i had finished typing it...

Yet more on Contentment and stuff

Today, i realized why i have constantly used the word "content" in the content that i have been writing. I am currently living in an environment without it. I was reminded of that today when my mom came home from shopping and expected for me to put away all the things she had bought...

As far as cereal in this house goes, i'm the only one that eats it (for the most part...) I eat Corn Flakes and don't venture too far from that. Each time my mother goes shopping, i have to put away all the stuff she buys. Today, she came back with way too many boxes of Chex cereal because they were on sale. i then proceeded to point to 2 other bags that still hadn't been eaten. I looked in the fridge to see leftovers that i just had to waste my time putting away because "somebody was surely going to eat them." Well, guess what, just like the cereal, that wasn't true. I was told i couldn't do what i wanted to because i spend too much money already ($15, if that, each week on food). I looked around my house and saw box after box of stuff that we just had to have and don't use. My mom bought some more pans to cook with. I already have enough problems trying to stack the ones we have to fit them in the cabinets and drawers. There is no free space to move around just for the sake of moving. I am surrounded by too much "stuff." I want to enjoy what i have, but it's not possible with it taking up all the space there is. How i would love to move out and enjoy a simple way of life with just the necessities. i have lived in Africa and Mexico. I know what it is to be content in that type of environment. It isn't too difficult for me. My problem comes in having too much. How do you live like that? The option of moving out isn't yet open...