Just a sudden train of thought. I was cooking and thinking how we emotionally attach ourselves to materialistic things. And my question is, why is attaching oneself to tangible objects ill-favoured? Of course Alexander the Great wanted to not burry his hands to show that he owns nothing when leaving this world. True story. But that is no reason for us to restrict ourselves from experiencing this world, is it? And possessions add to our experience and understanding of this world, and more importantly, self.
If we analyse, clearly our wishes and desires drive our every decision and action towards anything to do with 'materialistic things'.
Let's say that we want to own a particular kind of cell phone for its features and the interactive experience that it might bring with them. Once owned, lets say we lost it (ahem! kindly refer my previous blog: My Extended Self..My Mobile..). We cringe at the loss. We become helpless because we had put in effort to finally afford a desirable object, and as expected we had loved the experience with it. Albeit the materialistic phone doesn't talk back, with its form, its hold, its UI and its various other elements which define its features, come together and form a non-verbal relationship with us. This relationship develops into a human-android experiential attachment, networked with one sided emotions. It is this network which feeds into our sadness and hope, triggered by its loss.
An experience is irreplaceable. An experience is almost always new, novel and helps find oneself of our liking and wanting, of what intrigues us and what we enjoy. Experiences help us explore boundaries which otherwise we wouldn't have approached. And possessions in particular aids in this 'exploration of self'.
Of course, anything extreme, like greed, is objectionable. But temporary phase of attachment, I feel is necessary to live life, and to experience its various flavours.
If we analyse, clearly our wishes and desires drive our every decision and action towards anything to do with 'materialistic things'.
Let's say that we want to own a particular kind of cell phone for its features and the interactive experience that it might bring with them. Once owned, lets say we lost it (ahem! kindly refer my previous blog: My Extended Self..My Mobile..). We cringe at the loss. We become helpless because we had put in effort to finally afford a desirable object, and as expected we had loved the experience with it. Albeit the materialistic phone doesn't talk back, with its form, its hold, its UI and its various other elements which define its features, come together and form a non-verbal relationship with us. This relationship develops into a human-android experiential attachment, networked with one sided emotions. It is this network which feeds into our sadness and hope, triggered by its loss.
An experience is irreplaceable. An experience is almost always new, novel and helps find oneself of our liking and wanting, of what intrigues us and what we enjoy. Experiences help us explore boundaries which otherwise we wouldn't have approached. And possessions in particular aids in this 'exploration of self'.
Of course, anything extreme, like greed, is objectionable. But temporary phase of attachment, I feel is necessary to live life, and to experience its various flavours.
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