Experiencing Freedom From The Dependency On Novelty Or Newness
One of the dependencies that the consumer society promotes is dependency on the new. You have a car but today a new, better one is coming out. You have a mobile but the new one on the market today has more features and yours is now obsolete. The same thing happens to the television, personal stereos (MP3 players), the video (DVD players), etc. Today you have some clothes but tomorrow the fashion will be different. We find the need to fill ourselves with more and more. This way an addiction to the new is generated. We get bored quickly and we need something apparently new and different all the time.
Some people need to buy new clothes all the time because it makes them feel better; they feel the newness, is this normal? It is actually an addiction to the new out of boredom, discomfort with oneself, and the inner need to impress and please others that so many people possess. It is to spend without responsibility. It is to live in the superficiality 'of the suit or the saree', not in the inner essence of being or soul. It is to use time to distract oneself and not to construct creatively. Its not as if buying new stuff or going shopping is wrong but when it becomes a dependency, when it becomes a source of boosting your self esteem, thats a sign that you are going wrong.
(To be continued tomorrow …)
In Spiritual Service,
Brahma Kumaris
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