The Voice In My Head…

Is that even possible?! - one brilliant soul is experimenting to see if it is.

I’ve just spent the better half of the morning going through every single post of Gaurav Mishra’s ‘Off Consumption’ blog (which is also going to be a book soon!) on his experiments thus far with a year off consumption.

While I surfed through his 2 week journey so far (yeah, it’s still a baby blog, you can catch up) I found myself laughing at his washing bucketfuls of clothes, amazed that people were getting so into the whole thing that they want to turn it into a reality TV show and in general, enjoying (to quote a commenter) his funny “Wodehouse like” posts on his dates off consumption.

His latest post (on his insatiable craving for a McDonald’s Paneer Salsa Wrap) makes me wonder whether he’ll actually make it through the year?!

I found myself also wondering if I too could give up consumption for a year - that thought quickly perished when I glanced at the sexy new Guess shoes I’ve just bought (one really can’t have too many shoes, right?). I’m not crazy about buying things, but how does one live in Mumbai, for a year and not buy any new clothes or shoes, not go to any restaurants or movies or any paid entertainment?! Seriously!!!!

I know I have enough of resilience in me to do it for a cause - I did after all live in an Ashram for two years - but to stay in the world and completely be off consumption, just to “see” if it’s possible - gee, I don’t know..!

Anyway, I’m wishing G the best of luck & will be following the entire experiment closely!

Meanwhile, what are your thoughts on the matter? Do you think you’d make it through a year? Would you want to?!

Related thought - if you had to do this (don’t ask me why, just assume someone put a gun to your head or something), what do you think would be the main thing you’d miss being able to do/buy? - I think mine would be giving up restaurants / coffee shops - basically would cut off my social life, I think!