Even if you don’t share my love for the band Switchfoot, there is one song you should check out today. “American Dream” is a song about the very things we talk about on this blog and more broadly in the minimalist community: how wrong things go when “success is equated with excess“.
The band goes on to proclaim:
I want out of this machine
It doesn’t feel like freedomThis ain’t my American dream
I want to live and die for bigger things
I’m tired of fighting for just me
This ain’t my American dream
Yesterday, I was once again listening to this song and it got me thinking. It’s true that as a whole — even outside america, our culture measures success in the wrong way, counting the stuff we collect around us: If you drive a fancy car and live in a big house, you are considered a success in life. But what other ways are there to measure success?
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