1197: Planning for the Fire by Colin Wright of Exile Lifestyle on Minimalism & Simple Living

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🗓️ 22 March 2019

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Colin Wright of Exile Lifestyle shares his thoughts on planning for the fire. Episode 1197: Planning for the Fire by Colin Wright of Exile Lifestyle on Minimalism & Simple Living Colin Wright is a professional author and international speaker who co-founded a publishing company and travels full-time, moving to a new country every four months or so--that country determined by the votes of his readers! He also blogs. Colin's a minimalist in that he owns very few things and is careful in how he consumes. He tends to buy less, but invest in quality when he does, and trends toward the same in relationships, business endeavors, and just about everything else. He's left-handed, blue-eyed, scary good at Tetris, and can’t cook. The original post is located here: https://exilelifestyle.com/planning-fire/ Visit Me Online at OLDPodcast.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:57.3	Planting for the Fire by calling right of Exile Lifestyle.com
1:05.2	There's something wrong with the fire detection system in my apartment building.
1:09.2	In the five months since I moved to Memphis, we've had probably 20 false alarms, the siren
1:15.0	in the hallway just outside my flat, blaring and enduring, ear shattering, sonic pulse each
1:20.4	time.
1:21.8	After a week in which nearly every day was accompanied by such an alarm, I reached a point
1:25.9	where I considered just ignoring it, covering my ears and doing my best to carry on.
1:31.2	Each time though, I thought about how much it would suck if this time it was real.
1:35.9	How stupid I would feel in my final moments if I had had the chance to escape, but didn't,
1:40.9	because it wasn't convenient.
1:42.6	And so I came to meet some of my neighbors by sight and through commiseration, if not
1:46.9	by name.
1:48.0	We met while helping each other carry crying toddlers and toddler accessories down the
1:52.0	skinny stairwells.
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