{"id":431,"date":"2012-12-03T10:36:56","date_gmt":"2012-12-03T15:36:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/samuelrainey.com\/blog\/?p=431"},"modified":"2012-12-03T10:39:53","modified_gmt":"2012-12-03T15:39:53","slug":"not-all-space-needs-to-be-filled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/samuelrainey.com\/blog\/2012\/12\/not-all-space-needs-to-be-filled\/","title":{"rendered":"Not all Space needs to be Filled"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\" standalone=\"no\"?--><a href=\"http:\/\/samuelrainey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Space_Deep.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-432\" title=\"Space_Deep\" src=\"http:\/\/samuelrainey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Space_Deep-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If your daily, weekly, monthly, yearly life with all the activities, commitments, and &#8220;things you do regularly&#8221; were manifested as various sized cardboard boxes in your home; what would your home look like? Would there be any open spaces, or would you be the next candidate on a &#8220;hoarding&#8221; reality show?<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. is a culture that values doing more than being. We don&#8217;t rest well, which means that most spaces and places of our lives are filled up. We are a culture of performers, of doers. Unfortunately, when cultures are driven by performance, doing, addictions and life controlling habits flourish. Said another way: We fill our lives up with stuff. Shopping, Toys, Food, alcohol, internet, reality (not really) TV shows, porn, and drugs are all ways that we medicate the reality that we don&#8217;t have enough capacity to get what we want.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s impossible to live life for long as a human doer. We are human beings. We&#8217;re finite creatures with needs that sometimes defy age, logic, and reason. We&#8217;re not the great conquerors and rulers of life that we want to believe we are. 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