What really matters to you?

We are all confronted at times in our lives with the option of leaving behind the very things we strive so hard to acquire. The material objects that mean so much to us at times and then we realize we never really needed them in the first place. We are fascinated by the ads and captivated by the idea of getting something ‘NEW’.
All of this never really satisfies what we think it is going to satisfy. We are left with an empty feeling that some how cannot be ‘fixed’ no matter how much stuff we buy.
George Carlin once did a wonderful routine about ’stuff’. We are always buying ’stuff’ and then taking the ’stuff’ on vacation only to get more ’stuff’. This is what I mean when I say we must think about leaving it all behind. Those ‘things’ don’t make us really happy!
Find a quiet place and rest your head in your hands and think about what really makes you happy. I am sure it won’t be the many things you bought in the last year that you thought were going to make you really happy. Go read a book and relax. That is something that will bring you more pleasure and it is really much cheaper.