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Materialism Breeds Unhappiness


© D Sharon Pruit

Are you a materialistic person? Do you look towards material and physical goods, such as money, luxury items, car, property, etc, to make you feel happy? These physical goods can be anything, extending to what may seem like daily necessities to you, such as your handphone, camera, mp3 player, watch, and so on.

A materialistic person is someone who has a preoccupation with the owning of material possessions, especially luxury goods and wealth, and equates them to happiness and fulfillment. This is especially so when the owning of the possessions is motivated by emotional reasons (such as to look better, feel better) rather than functional reasons (to communicate with others, to travel, and so on).

Materialism has become the prevalent trend in our society – just check out the constant, growing fixation on earning more money and owning material goods. At the same time, we are now materially better off than we ever have been, based on our all-time high consumption of mobile phones, computers and cars.

Based on that, you would think everyone should be happier today than in the past. Shouldn’t they be? (more…)


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Published Feb 18 2009
Filed: Emotional Mastery, Money & Wealth
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Are You Looking For A Relationship To Complete Yourself?

Originally written and published on 13 Feb, 2009.

“To say ‘I love you’ one must know first how to say the ‘I’.”- Ayn Rand (in The Fountainhead)

“You do not need to be loved, not at the cost of yourself. The single relationship that is truly central and crucial in a life is the relationship to the self.” – Jo Courdert

Love. Soulmate. The One. Relationship. Marriage. Eternal Bliss.

There are several topics in life which attract a lot of desperation. Love is one of them. Specifically, singlehood when it comes to love.

I know it because I’m single, and I have a lot of single friends. Over the years, I’ve constantly heard people around me, including myself, look upon friends getting attached, lament about our singlehood, about the (poor) quality of people we are meeting, why we’re not meeting our special someone, when we’ll meet our soulmate, whether we’re even have a soulmate, and so on. Even when I was surfing through the internet the past couple of days, I came across various posts and comments by different people, sighing about their state of singlehood and spending Valentine’s Day alone (it’s Valentine’s Day tomorrow as I’m writing this).

Singlehood = Incomplete?


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Somehow, the mainstream society seems to be hovering…


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Published Feb 13 2009
Filed: About Celes, Relationships, Singlehood & Dating
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