Are We A Slave Of Our Possessions?

Remember 80 years where getting a horse is as easy as getting a car now, but getting a car was very difficult. Then only the Richard wealthy could get a car, while the poor couldn’t afford a car but have horses to rely on for their transportation and farm work. People were aspiring to have a car and worked so hard to have cars. Car was a status symbol, if you had a car you were wealthy, but look at us today, the rich now have cars and horses, while the poor have only cars. If you see a man who drives an expensive car and also has horses, we think they are wealthy because horses are very expensive now, not all people can afford them because they worth more than cars and you have to take care of them.

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That’s one point of view, now lets look at location, in the past, only the poor have houses in the village and the rich in the cities, because living in the village was seen as a poor man’s home. But look at today, rich people have a house in the village now, they call it villa or country home, it’s usually finer and more expensive than the house in the city. While poor people live in the city paying rent and can’t afford to have an expensive house in the village. In the past some poor people sold their village houses to be able to afford moving to the city.

We do lots of things because of the trend behind it, the community decide what’s considered wealthy or poor, and that makes us slaves of our possession. Because 15 years ago, blackberry was a status symbol, now it isn’t.