My question above goes beyond the want for 'new' clothes, the familiar 'I want something new' rant of 20-something- year-old ( or anyone spirited for that matter! ). Why do we ache for new relationships? Have we let the old ones stagnate to such an extent that the stink is too much to bear? Or is the 'trash it' culture of the material world getting into our emotional space .
Many an elite , 'thinker' friends I have, mock at people who spend, like there's no tomorrow-rampant consumers that is . The very same thinkers desperately form new friends everyday-which is not unusual . But ask me what happens to their older relations or blood relations (the 'purest' of them all :p) and I'll have nothing much to say but that they 'Trashed it'.
Much is said and done about the materialistic consumerism the world is consumed by (which a friend of mine has convinced me somewhat that its not very bad) but what about the state of affairs of the mind.
Not everything everything is done and finished with a heartfelt Sorry, or is it? Perhaps, the people you hurt the most are people who don't expect your sorry, but get one. Yet, strangely, these are the people who will be there for you decades later , when you have grown out of your new found friends, only- the older ones will be hurt all along the way.
Really, what does one gain along this process? Learning? The joy of living life my way?
Not worth one's salt. no?
Many an elite , 'thinker' friends I have, mock at people who spend, like there's no tomorrow-rampant consumers that is . The very same thinkers desperately form new friends everyday-which is not unusual . But ask me what happens to their older relations or blood relations (the 'purest' of them all :p) and I'll have nothing much to say but that they 'Trashed it'.
Much is said and done about the materialistic consumerism the world is consumed by (which a friend of mine has convinced me somewhat that its not very bad) but what about the state of affairs of the mind.
Not everything everything is done and finished with a heartfelt Sorry, or is it? Perhaps, the people you hurt the most are people who don't expect your sorry, but get one. Yet, strangely, these are the people who will be there for you decades later , when you have grown out of your new found friends, only- the older ones will be hurt all along the way.
Really, what does one gain along this process? Learning? The joy of living life my way?
Not worth one's salt. no?
