Often, we look at the worldly things we have and think that to have them, we're so happy and satisifed.As long as we have the latest electronic gadgets, keep up with the latest fashion trends, have a hip boy-girl friend, we are happy. We think that there is nothing more to living our lives than having what everyone else has. We are so caught up with our world, where our lives revolve around ourselves, where everything we do, it's for ourselves, for our own good and for our own pleasures. "Oh, she has this thing and it's like so cool! I want to have it too. I don't care, i must have it." This kind of attitude is common place with most teenagers these days. We want to identify ourselves with the crowd, with our friends so that I will belong, so that I will not get despised, so that I will not be the odd one out. Our thinking is very self-centered. When have we ever done something which is actually selfless? When have we stopped thinking about our wants and desires, and for once, about something else which doesn't concern ourselves?
This is a materialistic world. Now, don't get me wrong. Christians are not monks that live in seclusion in temples or faraway places. We are not that extreme as to denounce all materialistic things that there are, neither do we forbid the occassional indulgence in something materiaslistic for ourselves. The point is that when we have these things, when after we got something which we want very much, we experience happiness, bliss even. But, will this satisfaction last? We feel temporary happiness, but will this last? No, they will not last, i doubt they will even last as time passes and as we age. After all, we can't die bringing these things along with us.

People can't give up their wants and desires. They're blinded by worldly things. The satisfaction they get is temporary. The trend changes. What is hot this season will not be so the other. What for do we pursue these things in our lives? They serve to satisfy our wants, not needs. To us, they are important and we can't give them up easily. Because when all these are taken away from us, there are nothing we can hide behind. What we have left will be ourselves only, our characters. And are our characters good enough to be proud of?

These are the things which separate us from the recognition of God, and that such a God really exists. We are consumed by what the world deems as important. We are so conscious of ourselves that we get prideful, caught up by our own ambitions and what the world has to offer. We love the world so much we get hurt by what the world says. We are afraid of rejection, of being a loner, of having no one close to our hearts, no one to turn to in times when we just need someone to listen. And we often forget that we always have a faithful friend around, yes, that is God.

Ha, shan't get too long with this post, else claudia will say that im longwinded and naggy again.

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