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               “NEEDS AND WANTS ARE UNLIMITED AND                                     ENDLESS”

       

THE MATERIALISTIC WORLD

We always wants the next best thing, the newest, the youngest……

 Failing that, we atleast want more –“ MORE INTENSITY, MORE VAREITY, MORE STIMULATION”

 

The biggest question that often comes in my mind “How it ruins our life and happiness”?

I usually see young men and women , infact all of us observe that they seem lost in their designer clothes, dwarfed and often dehumanised by their possessions. Sometimes being materialistic we often fail to know the fact that we are the one’s who already being trap in this web of Money grubbing.

Materialism is a system that eats us from the inside out said by “George Monbiot "

Have you ever noticed or You should try too , If we give chance to youth to choose Happiness, Money or any other materialistic wants, Can you guess what they would prefer to choose. Might be some of them would choose none of them life and love because they find it happiness in that but there is a maximum probability of choosing Money . Majority of them surely choose because Money is their happiness, If money would they have , they can have every materialistic things want and those are endless.

Throughout, they become more comparative and selfish and subsequently it makes a person depressed and thus it causes anxiety. Moreover it smashes one’s mind of those who succumb or get possessed.

Lets have one example if we take an example of a child , What we usually do whenever we see any child weeping or crying out loud, to stop him or to solve that problem, make him feel happy we often show them our mobile phones and I think that is not bad to do but if you keep develop this habbit always. Soon you will notice they start becoming demanding and choosy . babies and children are not materialistic , somehow we are responsible of developing these habbits in them

“Being materialistic is not bad as it sounds, but being excessive materialistic can be harmful”

This is the dreadful mistake majority of us making allowing themselves to believe that having more money and more stuff enhances wellbeing.

How are teens get trapped in the consumeristic world?

 

I can’t wait for the launch of new iphone , playstation, any expensive outfit etc. Eagerly waiting to own the latest one is the most commonly desire among teens Not only the teens, today’s consumer driven and material obsessed world has compelled all of us to believe that the more we have the more we will be happy and satisfied in our life. Even the adults want to have it all, be it a branded watch, purse, phone, sunglasses, clothes, shoes, etc. This materialistic thinking has penetrated so deep into our minds that we end up with truckloads of stuff in the house that we don’t even need.

“If the obsession for materialistic possessions takes over their mind, the teens would relate abundance in life to abundant possessions instead of family values and human virtues”.

What are the causes of Materialism?

1. Depression

2. Anxiety

3. Possessive

4. Narcissistic

5. Hyperkinetic

6. Ostentatious

How to control and handle it?

• Set limits

• Make a clear distinction between wants and needs

• Self Control

• Value experiences over possessions

• Practice Gratitude

• Becomes more environmentally conscious

• Don’t allow yourself to be held down by what society expects to you

• Stop comparing yourself with others

• Stop associating happiness with material possessions

• Be aware of the traps of consumerism

One day we will realise that material thing mean nothing , All that matters is the well being of the  people in your life.

“ Always remember one thing. You came alone into this world if crying. You will go alone out of this world crying. In between these two you come across many objects which are not belonged to you “.

                                                               Yashi ...