I just read an interesting article about "possesions," in which it suggests that people accumulate "stuff" in order to define who they are:
For the love of stuff: I am my things and my things are me. I don’t want to give them up: they are narrative prompts for the story of my life
In many strains of spiritual thinking, accumulating possessions (i.e.: being materialistic) is a bad thing.
My question for you is "is it?" Is there something inherently wrong with accumulating stuff, or is accumulating stuff part of what defines you as a person? Or maybe there is another option?
For the love of stuff: I am my things and my things are me. I don’t want to give them up: they are narrative prompts for the story of my life
...Much as I admire a clean surface, I have never been a minimalist. But arriving at middle age on the brink of my very own economic meltdown, I’m having to question my relationship to things, asking: why are they so important? What do they signify? Could I live without them, or make do with a cyber version – a clutch of Pinterest boards and a library of ebooks?
My question for you is "is it?" Is there something inherently wrong with accumulating stuff, or is accumulating stuff part of what defines you as a person? Or maybe there is another option?
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