EXPERIENCES VS MATERIAL THINGS

Nowadays, our population tends to think that spending funds on an experience isn’t as wise as spending it on material possessions. We believe experiences come and go in a flash but in reality we remember them long afterwards, when we become used and bored with our possessions. From childhood, we’ve been taught to buy things to "solve" the current issues we have; a stuffed animal, a skate board, a phone a car, a house etc, property that pleasures our everlasting demands. But the trap of becoming obsessed with material things is what causes our everlasting demands to become everlasting dissatisfaction. We buy things we don’t need, with money we don’t have, to impress people we actually don’t really want to.

Most people imagined that they could make themselves happy by spending their money on themselves. But in actuality, nothing could be further from the truth. There is no brighter satisfaction than positive experiences. They are rare, once in a lifetime, a Broadway show, a visit at the Van Gogh museum, tasting a new food or like for example TRAVELING.

Traveling opens your eyes, mind and soul. It makes you a well-rounded human being, creates meaningful relationships. The challenges and opportunities it lays at your feet, to help you discover who you are, the adventure changes your perspective and provides you an education that you can’t get in any school. Experienced travellers those who know that their surroundings are far from within their control, are calm, cool and collected and the anticipation of an experience like this is far more enjoyable than possessions. And here is why I believe that.

There is nothing wrong with possessions, but the addiction to it. We can enjoy the material things as long as we are a student of what does and doesn’t make us truly happy.

Take away all of your material things and you're left with all of your experiences.

but,

take away all of your experiences and you’re left leaving in a material world.

Lots of love,

x Katerina