The Pursuit of Possession

There is a wonderful saying: "Everyone wants to have a friend, but not everyone wants to be one." Nowadays, we increasingly want "to have". "I want to have a child" — instead of "I want to be a mother", "I want to have a husband" — instead of "I want to be a wife", and so on. Behind these language subtleties stands a person's attitude towards life, their motto: either – I am for someone, or – someone is for me... In our desire to have, we break lives, break hearts – and suffer from loneliness... The "possessing person" will always find what they have insufficient. Not enough money, not enough power, not enough of one wife, not enough friends, not enough fun, not enough of themselves. A consumer, having no essence of their own, is made up of what they possess.