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   No matter what was Goethe primary reason for writing the phrase mentioned above I think we should try to take his advice to heart. 
   Let us see if we can limit ourselves in our world driven by consumption. 
  -Are we even able anymore to listen to one song per day, do one physical exercise, read one story/essay, eat one nutritional (and tasty) meal?
  +Are we even able anymore to listen to one song per day, do one physical exercise, read one story/essay, 
  +eat one nutritional (and tasty) meal?
   
   How would such change reshape our personalities and tastes? 
   What skills would we acquire? 
   Would we be less anxious or more? What would we do with our newly acquired free time? 
   How would we spend it? Learn a new language, meet our friends, walk more and think more, do some community work, learn to play some instrument, invent a new game? 
  -I don't know, but it definitely puts you in control, it makes you to design your life and. Are we up to the challenge, are we capable of doing this?
  +I don't know, but it definitely puts you in control, it makes you design your life. 
  +Are we up to the challenge, are we capable of doing this?
   
   It's clear nowadays that abundance of food leads to obesity, diabetes and other health issues. 
   Those changes are physical and easy to see. But what about the abundance of media, technology, entertainment? 
  
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  Or maybe restriction of some sort allows us to focus and turn on from one category of needs (e.x. physical) to another (e.x. intellectual, spiritual etc)?
  
  Or maybe idea of artificial restraint presents us with the change in our routine which is important on recognizing when we do something on the autopilot? 
  Maybe it helps us to to fight boredom? 
  It allows us to revisit our habits and default behaviors? 
  E.x. instead of falling back to eating something when we are bored we can try to discover a new source of joy or even find some new meaning in our actions?
  
  
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  = On abundance and moderation
  Anton Podviaznikov <anton@podviaznikov.com>
  :revdate: 2018-01-09
  :docdate: 2018-01-09
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  :document_type: writing
  :tags: "abundance, moderation, consumption, consumerism"
  