Is funny when you are young at school, with no more responsabilities than study, clean your room, take out the garbage and if you're in sports assist to your practices. In that age you are eager to become an adult and get independent from your parents as well pursuit that career or profession you dream of. When you begin to go out with friends, now that those fairy tales doesn't exist, begin to experiments your first puppie love, when you had sex... is at that moment, when you lost you Innocence is when you'll never have it back, when you begin to see the darkness and the sharp images of the life. When your family doesn't have money to pay your college and you have to work to pay your studies, work at night, experiment depression because that person you loved so much doesnt love you anymore is when you're becoming an adult. When you have to also move up from your home and live with an stranger in an university campus or in a sole apartment, when where you've got to the university you're not sure or you didnt like what you always dream to study, is when it hits you. Besides the downs, there's also the ups, when you actually enjoy sex, when you meet new friends, when you hang out to bars and get wasted in a weekend's basis, when after semesters wasted you finally change to an area of study of satisfaction, when you got extra money or a promotion to buy those expensive shoes, or clothes, or accesories or electronic device you was craving for. In that phase of your life, when you know the value of the money and it's importance, when you become a materialist.
Materialist, as the famous Madonna song Material Girl, is usually conceived as this EVIL stamp that nobody wants and is so easily used as human defect pointer. Why is it? because a person who wants money for the reasons they needed that are not for greater good, common interest? Ambition another word tied to the first one, why is bad to be ambitious? Why is bad want to have more, why is bad don't conform with a rutinary middle-class life?
What I found, is that the most of the persons who critize are quite hipocrite. Do you tell me that is love all you need in life, if so when you or your beloved ones (partner, kids, parents) get sick they will get free service of a hospital? free medicines? free treatment for that life-threatening condition? Would you rent forever? when you can have the chance to pay a mortgage for an apartment or house of your own? as well a car (well needed in cities or countries when the public transportation system isn't easily available and 24/7)? I'm not talking about luxuries at this point, but things you need in day to day life. Not to mention food, water, electricity and cable tv bills, telephone and/or cellphones. What about you go naked to the school, job or out of your house? NO NO NO you nead to wear clothes, and clothes aren't free (Unless you get charity from a church or a missionary mission, so don't expect nice clothes either). Be materialist is not necessary crave for luxuries, but if you work hard and can afford them why not? For those of us who lives in a capitalist country (the most of us) we need money, because the money get us our needs, our comfort and most of everything. Can you criticize someone who's working more than 40 hours weekly to get extra money, to spend in a need or in a luxury, no!
People who says that can live only with love? Check their relationships, as soon one of both is unemployed or doesn't earn enough, begins the financial problems and as well problems in the relationship. Suddenly that love, romance and enthusiasm are replaced with discontent, frustration because you have to choose what not to pay in the month and the fights doesn't end. Money is not the direct cause, but indirect because without one you don't get the other things.
For good or for bad, be materialist is a necessary evil? if you want to call it that way. The answer is yes, even if is a priority in your life or not so much, be materialist is part of who we're and our existance, otherwise... you won't grow up and your parents will support you forever... just is your lost-innocence dreams!
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