Things

Now that the majority of the boxes have been emptied and the purging continues, one thought comes to mind- why?  Why do we spend so much time and energy (and money) on things. Buying things, returning things, gifting things, re-gifting things, donating things, discarding things.  It's all about things, but why?  We buy things to make us feel good, as a reward when we've attained a certain goal, to make up for something that we've done badly to someone else.  We do it when we get new jobs, new houses, new spouses, new babies, new pets, hell...some do it when they get new body parts.

I've gone through this process of moving 6 times in the past 10 years, so I have been down this road enough to be better at this. But yet, not so much. I have discarded, donated and abandoned more "things" than some people accumulate in a lifetime.  So why is it that I have anything at all? 

Could I conceivably live with nothing, or less things, knowing that of course we will move...again?.  And go through this process...again?

With me...anyTHING is possible...