What's Up Lollipop?

When Madonna came out with her song “Material Girl” back in 1980’something I thought “yep, that’s me, the material girl”.  I like my stuff, my clothes, my jewelry, my ornaments, my stuff.  Generally though I have been pretty restrained in my buying power until the last couple of years when I let my inner Shopping Girl take over and roar.

       Now as I hit old age I find myself turning inward and doing the conventional soul searching on what do I really need?  I haven’t taken any giant leap towards “down-sizing” but I am questioning what I want.  Even as I enjoy my new hobby of card making I wonder, why?  I find myself looking more seriously at my mother’s comments when she says “do you really need it” or “why do people buy all that junk from China”?  Oh dear, is this a sign?

       A therapist would tell you that people buy and accumulate things as a way of feel secure; it helps to cover up their feelings of inadequacy.  Or so they say.  So then I wonder, why do people who already have a lot of money and things, why do they feel compelled to have more, more and then more?  Why do they begrudge others from having “enough” while they accumulate multi-millions?  How empty are they inside that they can never have enough?  People who keep sticking their hands in the cookie jar are deviants from normal social behaviour.  How is it that people such as they get into positions of power?

       What fills you up?  Is it material things, activities, relationships or something else.  As we get older and wiser, I hope we are able to be introspective enough to recognize who we really are.  And know what we really need is character, not stuff.