Have you ever wondered that your house has become just a place to keep your stuff. Things are stuffed everywhere to make you feel at home. You are so full of things that you have messed up the most habitable space around you, where at times you go for an occasional cleaning. But that occasion comes rarely and a permanent defragmentation button seems to be "Diwali time".
You don't care about the stuff lying around you the entire time because, you know you will eventually clean your stuff when all things would have to be organised in a desirable fashion. That happens only because everyone is cleaning their stuff. To add to the pressure, people are also going to visit you to find out how well you have organised your stuff. So I will have to clean my stuff too. But then you find out some stuff that you never knew you had because it was lying under the stuff you knew you had, but wasn't of any use. So finally you clean all your stuff and get rid of quite some of your stuff and give some useless stuff to those who never needed that stuff.
Now you seem to have an over clean abode and you wonder; Why a particular place is empty? So instead of leaving places uninhabited you search for some items in the market or on your shopping app where they always seem to have a sale on products that are already placed at a higher prices, so that you would buy stuff you don't need. In anticipation of poor understanding of the usefulness of the product you ultimately end up buying more stuff to stuff around.
And then you buy some more stuff to fill the rest of the places you just cleaned. And by the end of all deliveries you think now I must be happy because I have got all my stuff. But that feeling never stays permanent, Why...Why..
Because You Have Tooo Much Stuff.
Have you ever wondered why you don't feel a 100% comfortable at someone else's home - because there is no room for your stuff. They have crap all over the place. Anytime you go to a hotel, what's the first thing you do - you unpack your bags and keep all your stuff at different places, you've got to feel homely, because thats how a Compulsive Capitalist Shopper feels at home; By spreading his/her stuff all around. Now that you realise you have more Places than you have Stuff. So you gotta buy more stuff and after some time you notice, you have your stuff spread out all over the World.
Now the problem of stuff doesn't end here, problem arises when you start Losing stuff. You start worrying about stuff you don't care. Sometimes you dont even want to find some of your stuff because it was useless since the very beginning, But you just want to know where that stuff went.
Have you ever noticed that the moment people lose things, the first thing they say is- it was "Stolen". Its an Ego Defence Mechanism because they cant get over the fact that they could be dumb enough to lose the stuff in the first place. But you still keep looking for your stuff and the longer you look, the stranger the places get. However nothing is really lost until your Mom can't find it.
Well I know, when you grow old things get taken away from you. Does that mean - I shouldn't be collecting stuff or Does that mean I should learn to lose stuff. I sometimes feel there is a big pile hiding out there which contains all the stuff that you ever lost. And there might be a possibility that the day you reach heaven, the first thing they do is to give you all the stuff you ever lost, like some sunglasses, watches, few wallets, old-school mobile phones, important papers, ID proofs, keychains, few siblings and tonnes of ball point pen.
