So you think you’re drug free huh? You’ve never touched the stuff cause it’s “bad for you”. Little do you know you’re addicted to the most potent drug ever known, the drug that has been slowly killing more and more people over the past hundred years. Slowly and carefully it infects you, like a toxic gas seeping into your mind, until it’s too late and you realize you can’t do a damn thing about it, just like everyone else.
You’ve been hit with the worst drug society has ever known: the stuff drug. Have you ever wanted a bigger house, faster car, better paying job? Little do you know you’re being controlled by the stuff drug, the kind of drug that has been woven through society over the past 50 years.
You may call it keeping up with the joneses, living a life of prestige, or just a wanting to look important amongst your friends. It all means the same thing, an addiction to the material world. Just like a drug you are constantly told “to be happy you NEED me” by your possessions. Soon enough you’re upgrading your car, getting a new couch, buying one of those high tech vacuum cleaners with 10,000 joules of floor sucking power, just like an addict stuffing more heroin into his veins.
What would happen if all your possessions went away? What if tomorrow you woke up and everything you own was gone, your house, your car, your furniture, your pc and all your appliances. Will you feel lost, helpless or in pain? Most people would, because they, just like the guy doing lines of coke at your local minibar, are hopeless addicts. Slaves to their possessions which seem to define them far more than the other way around.
Sure you may say drugs inflict the mind, they control you, unlike stuff. The question is, what difference is there between spending thousands every year on appliances you don’t need versus spending all you’re hard earned money on cocaine, there really isn’t that much, everyone is simply looking to get enough money for their next fix.
Do these inanimate objects you collect really fulfill you; do they bring you hope and joy? Or do they simply provide some short term satisfaction until you can get your next Plasma TV with 15 more inches and twice as many pixels?
Is the answer to get rid of everything you own? Of course not. You don’t have to be an 87 year old monk to be spiritually enlightened. You simply need to take a look at your life and notice the trends; do you really need all the stuff you have? Do you consider it a part of your identity and if you were to lose it, it would be like losing a part of yourself? Only the most egocentric allow themselves to be defined by what they own, as opposed to what they are.
Perhaps it’s time to make a change in your life, or you can continue chasing your next fix if you feel that’s the way you really want to live. Give more, share more, don’t try and impress your friends with your cool “stuff” it’s completely shallow and merely another mask you stand behind. Work on yourself, your self esteem, your personal development, and become the kind of person people want to have around just for being you, not because of all the things you have.
Most people feel the need to have stuff to prove they are successful to others. What is there to prove? Do you like to prove you’re insecure about how great you really are? Covering it up with a bunch of inanimate objects screaming “look at me, I think I’m important, can you tell me if I really am?” You are the only one who decides if you are important; don’t let society dictate that for you.
Don’t forget everyone else is doing the same thing, give them a pat on the back and they will feel much more awesome, teach them to be ego free and they can learn to feel awesome for life.
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