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Lightweight Lifestyle

Lightweight lifestyle, or, what hiking teaches you about life:

This principle is not easy to see in our modern culture, where success is generally viewed as proportional to the value and quantity of one’s possessions. Society percieves the owner of a big house which can hold more possessions as more successful, when in fact he may be held in bondage by high house payments, taxes, utilities, repair costs, and a general lack of freedom. In an ever-increasing need for protection he acquires security lights, burglar alarms, double locks, fences, and moves into a subdivision with a locked gate. He pays large insurance premiums so he can afford to replace everything in case all his protection doesn’t work.

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Peter

Jeez, did you see the post-script on that page?

Dan McKeown

I hope they did not cancel their life insurance as well…

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