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"guys have it so much easier"

4/22/2019

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I was telling him that my simplicity journey has taught me things in ways that I never expected. My thinking has been transformed, but I still have to push myself sometimes. It was about shoes + how I finally took the plunge to only having one pair of trainers. That's when he said it with a tiny, smug smile, "Guys have it so much easier. We only need three pairs of shoes: a nicer pair, a sporty pair, and a..." I still don't know what the third pair was going to be, because I just had to laugh at this point. "You think you only have three pairs of shoes?" I asked.

Later that evening, while he was out...I put his shoes together in a line...his thirteen pairs of shoes...with a little note above that read, "Guys have it so much easier." He gasped when he saw them + laughed. I just said that I knew I wouldn't have the chance to make this point again.  :) No pressure...just awareness.

He is the one who suggested writing a post about it. "Sometimes you just don't even know that you have so much," he said. 

To me, the interesting part is that he could easily say how many pairs of shoes would be enough + what functions he would need them to fulfill. When it came time to look at the shoes that were actually already in his possession, however, "enough" was not part of the equation. At that point, it was more about the items themselves...not "necessity".

I can identify with this too. But I'm trying to work things from the opposite direction...and little by little...I'm learning. We're learning.

Love,
Jane 
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