What if we choose what makes a positive impact, rather than what's easiest? I know, sounds brilliant, doesn't it? But hear me out.... we make decisions based on their benefits to our community, shifting purchases to independent businesses, for example, and guess who wins. Any guesses?
US.
Our town.
Your city.
My neighborhood.
Because in all these places, when we hand our dollars over to real people, actual faces behind the storefronts and shops, WE WIN by strengthening the entire economic picture. And that, my friends, is something we can ALL be proud of. 💋💝😻
Something as simple, as humble, and as inexpensive as a cup of coffee....may not seem like a great big financial impact to you. But the point of "shifting our focus", making choices that support actual humans we live next door too.....that's where the power is. THAT's where we start to take back our streets and towns, cities and neighborhoods, from being turned into places that all look exactly alike; cookie cutter shells of one another. Because who wants to live where everything all looks the same, without real flavor and variety?
I hate shopping. It's not a sport or a hobby, or God forbid, a social thing, because I cannot stand trying to shop with anyone else around.
You may be wondering.... what is the big deal about ice cream? Why the excessive focus on July's celebration of frozen dessert? I will tell you! It's because getting an ice cream cone may appear to be a simple, small thing; not a lot of $$$ if you just get a scoop - of course you could venture into the sundaes and buckets and flights and so on....but I digress.
I think we are becoming a lonely society. Fueled largely by the ease online shopping and the constant advertising showing us just how much better life is on the couch.....are we just swallowing what they are telling us, hook, line and sinker - and forgetting to think for ourselves? I'm not going to post some graphic here with a blanket statement saying people are lonely because they buy online. I do however, believe there is a distinct possibility that "advances in technology" and "one-click options" are not as helpful (or healthy) for our state of mind, as getting out and interacting with one another.
