What are you planning in the future? Maybe buying a new car, a new home, cool outfits, comfy footwear, etc..
Are we materialistic? Do we love things more than people? What are you thinking yes we are materialistic!
We always have a long shopping list that we wish to complete but sometimes we hesitate maybe because of some financial crisis. We think about what to buy, what we don’t have, we are like a little cranky baby who is not satisfied with anything. We wish that after getting successful we will have a sports car, a big bungalow even we are a family of two, servants, and properties.
We are so much attracted to these materials that we forget about our parents, about our friends and families. We will spend millions on our luxury items even if we already have those things to show off to our friends, be proud of our richness instead we can use this money in changing someone’s life by providing someone with food or clothes or shelter.
We think the life of rich people is incredibly luxurious, but the truth is something else, they don’t have time to talk to their children, spent quality time with family and friends because they are so much after these materialistic things like money that they forget the real definition of love and caring. Their children are handled by babysitters or they are in hostels.
Imagine a woman wearing Sapphires and emeralds as her accessories, she is covered herself with silk and gold. She is looking exceptionally beautiful but she is not happy with herself, no one is there with whom she can share her emotions. She has millions of followers on social media but not her own family is with her. What is the use If these materialistic things if you are unhappy from the inside? You are rich but then also poor!
This pandemic taught us the value of our near and dear ones. We were all alone, all the expensive products became useless in a day. And then we realized the importance of family and friends in our lives. We realized that real happiness is not these things for which we spend all our lives. The most precious thing is our relations.
A third paper published in the Journal of Consumer Research, studied 2,500 people for six years. It found a two-way relationship between materialism and loneliness: materialism fosters social isolation; isolation fosters materialism. People who are cut off from others attach themselves to possessions. This attachment in turn crowds out social relationships.
We want bungalows even we have a small family, what is the use? It is just increasing the distance between our family members. We have to not live in poverty or become a Saint because we don’t support these materials. We have to just maintain a balance in our lives between luxuries and relations.
In short: “Money and materialistic possessions mean nothing without joy, peace, and love. We were made to serve people, not serve things.”
By Aishwarya Gupta
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