Stuff = Life?

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Does your stuff define your life? Or does your life define your stuff?

When you start with stuff, it goes like this:

See it. Like it. Want it. Buy it. Pay for it. Accessorize it. Maintain it. Store it. Repair it. Upgrade it. Replace it. Repeat, ad infinitum.

That’s ok if it is what you really want. If it fits in with what you want to do with your life. If it satisfies.

Too often, it does none of that. If it is something your friends have or do, and enjoy immensely, you may think it will do the same for you.

Maybe it is something you really enjoy doing or having, but it consumes more money or time than you really want to spend on it. There’s other things you’d rather do with your life.

In short, it doesn’t really satisfy. Because it is borrowed pleasure. It is second-rate enjoyment. It does not satisfy because it does not fit you, or your life.

If you repeat that scenario with enough things or activities, enough its, you’ll discover your life so full of stuff, there’s no room for you. Your life is now defined by your stuff. Your life is what you have and do. You have no time or money to be anything else.

So what happens if your life defines your stuff?

That’s next.
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