Society today puts too much weight on material objects, and there are too many people who own way more than they need.
Goodbye, Things: The New Japanese Minimalism
With the monthly sale right down the corner, it’s worth noting how our culture encourages us to consume material things, making it even more vague to distinguish a want from a need. It’s like breaking news all the time (Flash Sale!), and missing out would be the death of the image we want to portray.
How many shoes do we need anyway?
And it feels like we are in a rat race of endless consumerism. Does anybody actually win this thing?
I know some working people who splurge especially on pay days. And the reason why they do so is because they see it as rewarding themselves for the harwork they have done. I understand that it’s nice to treat yourself once in a while. But doing it most of the time within a month?
I’ve been trapped in this mindset of splurging as a way to pay yourself but my recent read made me rethink of how I see money. That money is actually what we receive for the life-hours we poured onto our jobs. So, you can say, that your salary is somehow your life in (agreed) monetary value. (I say agreed because your salary doesn’t really define you as a person).
From Work Optional: Retire Early the Non-Penny-Pinching Way:
Reorient your thinking about money to see it as a repository of the time you spent earning it and a tool to buy that time back, instead of as a means of rewarding yourself for your work.
jessa 