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JOURNAL ENTRY #7 : My Material Self

This picture shows my Blackpink Collection which includes albums, light stick, and more. This group brought inspiration to my life. Whenever I feel down, just by looking at them, their achievements and stuff, I’m being poured with a bucket of ice that makes me alive and continue doing great things. Is it required to buy these materials? As a fan, it is not necessary to purchase this and that just to prove that I am a fan but, for me these things help me cope up in life. I’m a big fan and they’re my source of happiness.

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SOCIAL SELF - The Material/Economic Self

This is where people associate themselves with material possessions where they relate to. It is likely that people will buy the things that they personally relate to. For me, it is musical technologies like microphones and guitars.

There are two important factors that I already knew coming into this topic: Wants and Needs. After GED101, I understood much more of what the considerations must be in picking things up. Is it Significant? Is it practical? These are the questions that must be asked when choosing. What must be something that will keep me alive, where without anything else, I would be just fine? Right now, I am just happy that we have a house to bring comfort into our lives. It may not be as big or as beautiful as the others but we are holding up. Recently I bought a microphone and installed a device to record. I consider musical items to be needs because music was always my dream to pursue. Who knows, the songs I produce in my room might be the song you'll be hearing in the radio next year? DREAM BIG I GUESS!

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JUST A MATERIAL BOY

Good day!! Hows it going? Its great to see you again!! Its me again, writing a blog for all of you. Now for todays series of unpacking the self, Im going to talk about the material self. Now material self is already self explanatory. It is a persons tangible possessions like his or her car, home, clothes, even family, and friends make up his or her material self, according to the book. In other words, the material self are the material possession influenced by one self. Basically society concludes the social status or symbol a person acquires once they saw the prestige symbol one person could afford. Now according to William James, the self is everything that an individual considers to be his or hers, not only his or her body and material possessions but also his or her reputation and beliefs. It says that ones material possession has a huge manifestation of ones identity. If you see someone using an iPhone you can conclude that person could be rich because of the social status a person can afford. Materialism is the importance that people give to material possessions over intangible values. “Oh my god!! Is that the new iPhone 11?” “ I love your skirt, where did you get it??” “Is that the new Range Rover?? How fancy?!”. A materialistic person is excessively concerned with the acquisition of material possessions. Its basically people showing off their prized possession towards other people thinking that these material things can help them elevate their social status within the society. Now some people exaggeratedly buy material stuff just for the sake of buying stuff, now these people have what they call Compulsive Buying Disorder or CBD. These type of people are characterised by an obsession with shopping and buying behaviours. In conclusion, people can do whatever they want with their money, as long as they earned it themselves. And that is it for this blog, thank you so much and I hope you’ll share this blog. Thank you!! Peace!!

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I was born into a middle class family. There are times when we have something in excess, and there are also times when what we have isn’t enough for everyone. But most of the time, we have the exact amount to survive the rough days ahead. Because of this, I learned to value money and find ways to prolong my allowances, and also learned to prioritize my needs and ignore my wants. However, when I left the province to study in Manila, I struggled to save money as I am always and unexpectedly bombarded by the payments I have to make. Now, most of the time that I look at my wallet, it feels like I am cutting an onion because I am teary eyed to see nothingness prevailing inside my wallet. And just when I thought there are paper bills in the hidden pockets, I am greeted by the tons of bus tickets I got from commuting. I keep on struggling to keep some savings because I keep on succumbing to my cravings and spending more than I allowed myself in food while thinking that I should not hold myself back in putting my money down for food. I do hope I could control myself so I could save something for myself in times of emergency, or when my allowance already reached its end when its supposed to last for another week.

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At first I didn’t want to have care in the world how I style myself when I go out. Yet when I grew up I started becoming concious. Here is the question of “what & need” as I tend to vary in my body size often. What will I choose comfort or style? Uniqlo is a brand that I like as they have unique yet simple styles which are comfortable at any size I am.

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When I was younger I didn’t give a care about what brand did I use for my daily hygiene needs. Everything really changes when you grow as you become aware of things. Like you want smoother hair or clearer skin so you try out these different products.

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At the age of 10 I started my love of books due to Harry Potter and I think I got it from my mother who loves to read also. Time passes by I started collecting books which varies in genre because its a simple enjoyment in life. Now after 9 years here are the books, my mom and own which have taken up almost a half of my shelves.