Create or Buy?

We need to start minimizing the question.

I find it so interesting that everything in this Western culture nowadays tries to tell you not to create: to buy.

It’s not even just the ads from the companies that do it. How many of you who have created something, have tried telling someone what you’re working on, just to be met with, “Why don’t you just buy (insert product or brand name here)”?

OR what about the people who create their own stuff and know they can’t tell anybody, out of fear of being “the crazy soap lady” or a wild huntsmen? And I know that there are people out there, who may even be reading this, who want to create something for themselves so bad, but talk themselves out of it for… what? Because of what other people will think? Because of how much time or energy it may take? Maybe because it really is just so convenient to go out and buy it, I mean, how far away is that furniture store?

Realistically, ask yourself what are the essential things you use for your life, or your survival, that you can make or create on your own. If you were stripped of all the cozy numbness of the material, if you decided to live for yourself and not for conglomerates, what would you be able to do for yourself?

Could you even grow your own food? I barely know how to, and I don’t have the heart to hunt. I couldn’t make my own clothes or furniture, let alone several different dishwares or cookware. A house? Forget it. Do you know how to keep yourself clean without…