If every possession that I own was to spontaneously explode, I would be okay with it.

The only exceptions are things that have a serious practical purpose (ex. toothbrush) and objects that hold sentimental value (ex. photographs). Everything else is just an unneeded luxury entirely worthless past its monetary value.

We live in a society where we are increasing judging our self-worth based on what we own. We have become lost in our pursuit of happiness. We find ourselves slaving away at jobs we hate in order to buy things that we don't need. We are selling our lives at the price of $7.25 an hour. That is what advertising has taught us. We have been brainwashed into a continuous cycle of work eight hours, play eight hours, and sleep eight hours. We find ourselves working overtime, not because we need food on the table but because we want the newest tablet or an even bigger television. I am in the state of mind that true happiness is not achieved by wealth or something similar. The good life can be only be found when you decide to give up and let go; when you stop trying to be perfect and accept the fact that you are not your job, the car you drive, or the contents of your wallet.

We judge how much people like us based on what they buy us. Once when I was in high school, I dated a girl for a little over a year. The beginning of the end of the relationship came the weekend of our anniversary. We went to a college football game in a different state and I was planning on taking her to an expensive restaurant but she said she felt sick so that did not happen. The next day she was upset that we did not go out to dinner and I told her that I wanted to but she was sick and gorging yourself with food is one of the worst things you can do when you feel ill. She told me that she would have felt better if I would have taken her somewhere. I told her that she probably would have felt worse if she already did not feel good. It is at that point that she revealed to me that she was not actually sick, she was upset because she felt like l did not buy her enough things. She did not want fun times with someone she claimed to love; she wanted clothes, jewelry, and stuff like that. I could not help but make the connection to a child telling her parents that they do not love her because they did not buy her enough toys.I feel like that girl I dated was flawed in her judgement of determining how much she was loved based on gifts.

Cash possess no actual value; it is just paper and fabric blending together with pictures of dead people on it. Money only has the potential for value. What is truly precious is your time on this Earth because we only get one life and it would be a shame to waste it pursuing something that you can never get enough of.