The Importance Of Materialism

Have you ever wanted something so bad, but you couldn’t see yourself getting it? Well that has pretty much been my life. When my mother was a child she lived in town, where you couldn’t walk outside of your door without seeing something done illegally. Whether it be the next biggest homicide, or drugs being transported in and out of a house. From then on she knew the life she wanted for her kids and it wasn’t the life she currently lived. My mother had me at the age of sixteen, so until she had a stable income we lived with my grandparents. She then had my brother, which motivated her to move her family toward he outskirts of the city, what we know as the suburbs. She did everything she could in order to provide for my brother and I, while

I believe one of the biggest problems inside of society today would have to be materialism. Materialism is defined as a tendency to consider material possessions and physical comfort as more important than spiritual values. Eventually becoming the thought that material possessions influence happiness. The reliability of these objects are usually unrealistic aspirations. Society views objects as a necessity, rather than the importance of life itself. I’m positive that media, such as social networks, television, and the radio has had a heavy influence on how people look at material things “Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.” (Oscar Wilde) This quote means that people allow man-made things to overpower the true value of

With just one upload to social media, so many things can be interpreted, from the clothes worn to the caption, hashtags, likes and comments. People make these uploads to impress or promote other users. So once people realized that having nice things in their photos increased their likes, comments and popularity, this became the main