March 16th - Spark Joy

It’s a lot of money to spend on ~things~ but also… spark joy, ya know?

Hmph. Not exactly the yes or no answer that I was hoping for. I exit out of the text conversation on my laptop and pull the window with the duffel bag back up. Ah. Look at it in all of it’s glory. So quilted. So green - my favorite color green at that, the kind that’s sort of army green, but richer, if that makes sense. So needing-to-be-in-my-possession.

But, alas, it is just a thing. And I have a lot of things. For me, problematically, ‘things’ tend to ‘spark joy’. It makes Amelia’s point much more difficult to traverse around. Is it just a thing? Or is a thing that will truly spark joy… and continue to spark joy?

I imagine ordering the duffel bag and having it show up 7 days from now. I imagine where I would bring it, what I could pack in it. Ski things for a mountain weekend? An overnight outfit for a quick trip to the city? Fleeces for a camping trip? It definitely would spark joy, no doubt about that. But so would seeing the number in my bank account increase. And so would making myself another piece of avocado toast. And so would finishing this puzzle that’s been sitting on my table for a couple days now.

With a sigh, I copy the link and add it to my notes document that’s titled “DON’T YOU DARE UNTIL YOU’RE MAKING $___k”. For now, I will live without this thing and spark some joy with the things I have.