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Cheap Avocados?


Went to the grocery the other day. Avocados on sale! Yay! A huge pile. So I picked one up, almost rotten. Sad face. I left the store with no avocados.

Fruit, I will often buy on sale very ripe fruit. Then I will freeze them. More on that later!

 I thought about those avocados for a couple of days, yes, I am that guy. Those avocadoes will most certainly end up in the trash. Sad. Along with that though, came the returning thought I have about how wasteful we are.

 Don't point the finger at the other guy, we all are guilty. We are an entitled society. Entitled to overindulge consuming, and under indulge on moving. Just look at our waistlines, or should I say 'waste-lines'. Our waste-lines are huge. Every Monday morning I drive through a small city. Passing through residential streets. Monday is curbside trash pickup day. I travel through approximately at 5:40, except for the days that I overindulge and feel entitled to sleeping another twenty minutes, then overindulging on over abundant fancy coffee that I am entitled too. Because 'I deserve it' Then I get into my super pricey gas guzzling 0-300 MPH in 2.9 milliseconds car that gets two gallons to the next stoplight! Sweet, I tell myself every time I step on that right pedal! Wait till the cool kids see me in this! I will be the envy of, hmmm? I will be the envy of everyone! Cruising through this small city, I think of my new car detailer. My car detailer started using a new tire shine product! It is so good! My tires will now outshine everybody else's tires! Smiling like the Cheshire cat I laugh out loud! Then, while waiting at the next useless stoplight that is waiting 23 seconds of my uber important time I begin to notice something. Trash. Piled high in front of homes.

Giant trash cans overflowing. Enough trash piled up beside these cans to fill one, and even two more giant cans. How can we, produce so much trash?

Then cruising through this small city, I pass by one of the local cemeteries. Stopping at the next light, I think, and think some more. The light turns green, I stomp, I mean I easily push down the right pedal of my twenty year old Hyundai with 289,000 miles, thankful that it moves forward, I think some more. How lucky I truly am. We are entitled to nothing. We deserve nothing. Be grateful for what we have. Opportunities  abound. Be grateful we have a choice to start over every day. What does this have to do with Avocados and trash? More than you think. You know that cemetery I passed? We all end up there. In the end, will you think about your car detailers new product that made your tires so shiny?

 

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