Why do we live like this?
I just had a long discussion with my mom about the way we live now. By “way” I mean the consumer lifestyle. By “we” I mean people in developed and developing countries.
It’s shocking to see how 8 year old girls are pressured to have branded clothes and so on so that they are socially accepted at school. 14 year old girls wear tonnes of make up, straighten their hair, wear high-heels and actually look over eighteen. It’s even normal to have one night stands for them at that age. The government is not even bothered to hide the ways they make themselves rich while the country goes into further depts.
Where is this gonna go? I am tired of this and I am only 22. I don’t even have a full- time ‘proper” job yet and I am already sick of the idea of working my a** off to feed the government so that one day when I am (hopefully) old and over 63 they will tell me “sorry, no money for retirement for u”. Seriously is it just me?
What’s even worse is that I am aware how I am pulled by this society to want stuff and still I want them. How many times did I say:”hmm, I wish I had this and that”?
I gotta change this. I don’t want to want. I wanna be happy with what I have. And I know that I have awesome family and boyfriend and couple of friends I can trust. ANd I am happy I have them. But I would be dishonest if I was trying to say that I am not blinded sometimes and forget about all of that just because I want something. Damnit.
There are families’ that lost their beloved by death or terrible mental illnesses and they would exchange everything they have to get that person back. While we just want more and forget about what we have.
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