World Water Day 2010

Did you ever ask yourself the question, What is Luxury? Well, I have, several times. It started 3 years ago when I was in Kenya, experiencing the real life Less is More experiment, to discover what I really needed and what luxury meant to me..


We all have a different definiton of luxury. But I believe we all have the same basic needs. Things most of us take for granted or don't even realise how important and necessary they are in our lives.. Things like daily food, a roof above our head, a bed, water or personal hygiene. Would you be able to live without? I wouldn't. And I've exprienced that need for real.. 

John Stanmeyer, VII, © National Geographic

The first basic need I realised I had, was WATER..!! You have no idea, how necessary it is to us, untill you don't have it. How we are used to tab water for basically everything! To wash ourselves, do our laundry, our dishes, to clean, to flush the toilet and last but not least to drink! Maybe you're not used to drinking from a tab, but clean tab water to drink is a luxury!! And yet billions of people in this world don't have this basic need!!


For us in West Europe, it's normal to have water all the time. But please realize, on this World Water Day, that clean water is luxury, and we should not take it for granted!!


I have experienced the less is more life, and try to always remember and use that adventage, to appreciate everything I have. From basic water, to tasty food up to the luxury to have everything you want..


Make Every Day Count*