The 'keys' to happiness

At the moment my wife is practising a song. She'll be performing it on piano at the upcoming wedding of a friend.

She wants to do lots of practice so it can be just great for the day. But we don't own a piano.

At this point the material world says "Well, go out and buy one". But these days there are many more options.

After a couple of practices on a friend's piano we put out the call on Streetbank - a community site for people to share things with their neighbours. Within a day we had a couple of offers of a keyboard to borrow.

It's a great solution as it was free for us, and made use of keyboards that were just sitting around unused. One was so unused that the owner said he would test if it still worked before he lent it to us.

I'm told that Aristotle once said that joy was in use not in ownership. I think this is a good example of that philosophy in action. Although sometimes I question if it's "joy" to hear the same song practiced ten times in a row - but that's beside the point.

Why not join Streetbank and see what's available in your area? Or offer sometime to lend - it might really help someone out.

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