Debt Prison

Christmas 2009 – Avoid Debt

Christmas has become a profit field day for corporate entities who’ve managed to convince consumers that happiness is just one more credit-card-swipe away. Just another purchase, we are assured, and we’ll find ourselves robustly thrilled with pleasantry knowing our neighbor’s children can’t boast louder than our own. As a society on a perpetual path of narcissistic self-worship, is it perhaps time to stop our debt-based consumption and look inward? What really matters in your life? Is your happiness really based on the ability to purchase goods and services beyond a measure which you can afford? Of course it isn’t. The rich man is not he who obtains the most but he who requires the least. Teaching ourselves and our children that life is not measured by material...