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To relook at your needs and to put what you want and feel
might seem like a very simple and common sense step to take,
but it is always surprising at the endless numbers of people
who are trapped or believe themselves to be trapped in the
universal preoccupation with materialism. If you are one of
those people staying in a work situation or lifestyle that
you despise, that only brings you the material, it might be
time to reassess the situation. If you see now that you do
not seem to have enough time, what will you do to change
that? Will you do whatever it takes? How many of us put
others first and keep staying stuck for them? For example we
believe our family needs that standard of living, parents
are proud of what we achieve, all our friends and others
seem to be living to specific lifestyles. A good start is to
regularly clear out your home, let go of all the things that
are broken, no longer work and that you no longer need. This
then will leave room for new ideas, situations and
beginnings to come into your life.
Western society mainly conditions us to measure others
and ourselves by what we have rather than who we are and
what we are about. We judge ourselves and others on the
abilities that we have to get things and then keep them .
There are many symbols of status; we are a world of those
who have and those who have not. Rich and poor people, rich
and poor countries. Yet, rich is just a matter of
perspective? If you give most of your time to whatever it
takes to gain those symbols of success and materialism and
then to keep them, what time do you have left for you to
dream, to travel, to fly, to soar, to explore all of your
endless selves and realities, all that you are and all that
is?
To own your own house, your own piece of land is to a lot
of people a basic requirement. It signifies freedom for
themselves and even their future generation. But think
again, what about that freedom that you already have, that
your children have inside of yourself, that can never be
taken away even were you to spend your life locked up in
jail. There is some difference between owning a piece of
land and knowing that the country, the planet and universes
are also yours. You can travel to all of these places within yourself
and faster than the speed of light, less than even a
thought. It also seems that a part of our nature is to want
to give our children what we did not have especially on a
material level. It would seem normal that we wish to protect
children from going without and feeling the pain associated
with being without on a material level. We then decide in
some way on their life experience and growth patterns. This
might be what is accepted as right but it does not
necessarily mean that it is right for all individuals or
their life experience. From our own past painful experiences
we seem to fear the worst and want to protect our children
from any kind of poverty. Do we ever look at children
and see just how rich they are already?
To have and enjoy the material is different from feeling
held back or stuck with it. I am a believer in having it
all. If you can no longer see the bigger picture beyond
materialism you might then be for a moment stuck. Think
about all that life is and all that it can be. The saying
that life is what happens when you were busy making plans is
a truth in itself.
The great news is that there is always a way, even if you
do not see one right now, just put your thoughts in that
direction. There is no need to get lost in the
preoccupation with materialism which can bring fear of
loosing and guilt of having. Rather enjoy life both with and without! |
