The Desire to Have vs. the Desire to Be

There is a wonderful proverb: Everyone wants to have a friend, but not everyone wants to be one. Nowadays, we often find ourselves in the mindset of wanting to have. We want to have children instead of wanting to be mothers, we want to have husbands instead of wanting to be wives, and so on. These nuances of language reflect a person's attitude towards life, their motto: either I exist for someone, or someone exists for me... In our desire to possess, we break lives, shatter hearts, and suffer from loneliness... A person who possesses will always find what they have to be insufficient. Not enough money, not enough power, not enough wives, not enough friends, not enough joy, not enough of oneself. The consumer, lacking their own essence, consists of what they possess.