I strongly believe that materialism can be good if you are able to manage it the right way, but if you lose control it can turn in a really negative part of life affecting the most important thing in life: the family.
Can giving such an important value to money and material possessions lead to conflict between work and family? Is materialism taking the main place in our lives? Nowadays people live in a consumer society, where the only thing that matters is if you have the newest stuff in the market, but as much we want to deny it no one exempt of being materialistic in some way, the truth is that every person in the whole wide world enjoys having material things, the problem occurs when these things take a more important place than family. …show more content…
Materialism is defined as the belief that having money and possessions is the most important thing in life. It is true that materialism has taken a big role in every individual life, we think that having a fortune will make us completely happy, but the truth is that several studies have shown that the richest persons in the world are also the most depressed and unhappy of all, because they left behind the most important things in the world, that are the family and the social interaction.
The moment we hear the word materialism, we automatically think about it in a really negative way, thinking that this means the person is superficial and that he/she does not care at all about anything except buying stuff. But I strongly believe that materialism being managed in the right way can create good ambitions on a person that can help to build a success and happy life.
Obsession is the reason why materialism is a really strong word in our society, we think that we always need to be the best at everything and that we are only worthy if we have huge amounts of money and if we purchase a lot of high-end products.
When we get obsessed with money and material thing, we tend to forget the main purpose of why we wanted to achieve a certain thing. We forget about our goals, and we do not remember that we cannot we good at everything and we stop enjoying life and in the result, we get stress and
Can giving such an important value to money and material possessions lead to conflict between work and family? Is materialism taking the main place in our lives? Nowadays people live in a consumer society, where the only thing that matters is if you have the newest stuff in the market, but as much we want to deny it no one exempt of being materialistic in some way, the truth is that every person in the whole wide world enjoys having material things, the problem occurs when these things take a more important place than family. …show more content…
Materialism is defined as the belief that having money and possessions is the most important thing in life. It is true that materialism has taken a big role in every individual life, we think that having a fortune will make us completely happy, but the truth is that several studies have shown that the richest persons in the world are also the most depressed and unhappy of all, because they left behind the most important things in the world, that are the family and the social interaction.
The moment we hear the word materialism, we automatically think about it in a really negative way, thinking that this means the person is superficial and that he/she does not care at all about anything except buying stuff. But I strongly believe that materialism being managed in the right way can create good ambitions on a person that can help to build a success and happy life.
Obsession is the reason why materialism is a really strong word in our society, we think that we always need to be the best at everything and that we are only worthy if we have huge amounts of money and if we purchase a lot of high-end products.
When we get obsessed with money and material thing, we tend to forget the main purpose of why we wanted to achieve a certain thing. We forget about our goals, and we do not remember that we cannot we good at everything and we stop enjoying life and in the result, we get stress and