```json
{
    "title": "What happened to the good stuff?",
    "url": "https://performancezen.com/2006/11/17/what-happened-to-the-good-stuff/",
    "datePublished": "2006-11-17",
    "dateModified": "2006-11-17",
    "language": "en-US",
    "description": "The last two months have brought substantial changes to my life, and to my view of the world. I am in flux, in change, in limbo. Evelyn Rodriguez of Crossroads…",
    "author": "spierzchala",
    "publisher": "Performance Zen"
}
```

# What happened to the good stuff?

The last two months have brought substantial changes to my life, and to my view of the world. I am in flux, in change, in limbo. Evelyn Rodriguez of [Crossroads Dispatches](http://evelynrodriguez.typepad.com/crossroads_dispatches/) went through [a similar phase lately](http://evelynrodriguez.typepad.com/crossroads_dispatches/2006/11/alll_good_thing.html).

The society we live in is driven by disruption, change, atomization. When you actually translate these messages, they are simply new ways of saying "buy more stuff".

I don't need more stuff. Given some of the plans we have for the next 12-18 months, we need less stuff; or at least more portable stuff.

And if you want disruption and atomization, live inside my mind for a day. The internal chaos of my mind that I am trying to understand is disruptive enough without having to absorb the external chaos people want to bring to my life. So I crave external calm.

The written word, on paper. The beauty in a photograph. The smell of the woods.

My life has been dictated by achieving the ephemeral, in a world completely addicted to "change for change's sake".

I'm tired of keeping up. So I am consciously falling behind. Life is finite, ephemeral. Stuff doesn't matter.

Change doesn't matter.

People matter.

Walk away from the technology for a day, a week. Live with yourself.

It's been a revelation to me.