Hello and welcome to this episode of Kennedy Saves the World.

Lent is upon us.

So for Western Christians, it started last week on Ash Wednesday.

For Eastern Orthodox Christians, it started yesterday. So here we go. It was Clean Monday. And always I try and give something up

for Lent. You know, you try and deprive yourself and challenge yourself and feel the the spiritual tension of giving something up

in order to fully receive God throughout Lent, which is a time of introspection and, you know, hopefully shifting some behavioral

patterns. There is some fasting involved in the Eastern Orthodox Church. It can be very strict

fasting. Like monks eat like bread and water like once a day. you know the the lighter fasters will try and abstain

from animal products on Wednesdays and Fridays I'm going to be doing that but I also gave up shopping

and this is something that I do every year I talked about it last, and it's a really good habit because you don't

realize how easy it is to get into the habit of going on Amazon or hitting the buy with Apple Pay

button because everything is made so excessively and especially with Instagram and targeted reagles, they know exactly

what you want, exactly what you're willing to spend and they will easily part you from your money.

And so that is one of the reasons because spending too much money in itself can be obviously a bad and

destructive habit. And also, it's one of those things like getting likes on social media

that is such a quick and easy dopamine hit that you don't even realize you're doing it

because we create what we think

are all of these needs for ourselves throughout our lives like you know i was watching a reel today of

this woman going here are these things i bought on amazon that made my house like super cute and uh it was

like look at this waffle print no slip bath mat i'm like i need that it's like i actually don't need that

i have functional, lovely,

clean bath mats, and I take very good care of my current bath mats, and therefore I don't need

...