High-end car. Flat screen tv. Big house. Brand name clothing. Smart phone. iPad. Extravagant vacations... Why do we long for such trinkets and treasures?
I wonder what it would be like to have been my age and be raising a family a couple of decades ago?
It's not that I don't love my job, or feel satisfaction from a hard days work. It's nice to have something that is just mine during the course of a day.
That being said, I love my kids more. I wish I didn't "want" so many things.
But I guess it's natural to long for what everyone around you has. It doesn't make wanting materialistic things rational. It is simply just the reality.
I want my kids to have the things my parents couldn't give me. I want to expose them to various experiences and places. I want them to have a better life.
But, on the other-hand, when it comes down to what really matters, you need love, family, shelter, clothing and food.
The "common reality" of having a duo working household making for less of a burden on just one person, man or woman, may just be a cruel illusion.
The realization I'm coming to appreciate is that we can make our own reality...
We just have to separate the things in life we "need" versus the things in life we merely just "want".
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