With the fast paced living that surrounds us it's difficult to avoid being swept up, rushing through our daily lives. Sometimes we can become competitors as we try to keep up and possess more material goods.
There is a big push in this social direction by corporations and their marketers. Advertising is a powerful persuasion to buy things we may not need or maybe not even really want. It's normal to want better lives for ourselves and our families, but we have to balance our goals with the cost. How much does this promotion, vacation, new purchase, cost in terms of real life? How many extra hours of stress and anxiety, now and later, go into getting it?
As more and more we come to falsely regard material gains as success we are missing out on the true values of life. Money really is quite necessary in our lives but the good things in life are free, life itself, friendship, nature, family. Whatever we do possess, in the end we must leave it all behind.
"The cost of a thing is the amount of what I call life, which is required to be exchanged for it immediately or in the long run." - Henry Thoreau (1817-1862)
Family values: Marketing and peer pressures
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