A home in the country. Forty acres and a mule. A house on a bus route. Guaranteed for life. Tax free. Sure sounds good. Ah, the simple life. Unfortunately, it's not that simple. In reality, it gets more complicated every day.
Karen and I are reasonably smart people. We manage to get along without a lot of the bells and whistles of the modern world. We don't Facebook, Skype, Instagram, Twitter, buy anything off EBay or use Craig's List. We don't use a Debit Card, get money from an ATM, use PIN numbers for anything, get any of the "but wait" offers from the TV hucksters, answer any of the survey questions on the phone, or have any frequent flier miles. When we had to replace Karen's phone this past Monday, because of a cracked screen, we saw a few new appliances at Best Buy which were beyond our imagination and far more complicated than we could comprehend. Her new phone, of course, required a new case, new screen protector, new charging cords, and is a little beyond our ability to operate and has a more complicated "rental agreement" with a host of documents we had to consent to even if we didn't fully know what we were consenting to. Our salesman, Luis, was a-third our age, more than 3 times smarter than us in the technical arena and made a complicated situation seem very simple. But simple it is not.
The world is moving at a dizzying pace and we can get caught up in the complexity of it and be overwhelmed by what we don't understand. Fidget spinners are the latest pet rock, hula hoop, mood ring, Rubik's cube, frisbee, hubba bubba, happy face, slinky, pacman, lava lamp, crocs, Elmo or a host of other fads which took our money and went away.
Just let me enjoy a simple life...........and let me be able to enjoy the screaming announcers and self-absorbed participants on American Ninja Warrior. Did any of this make sense?
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