Today a human being is created out of how much they consume and how much they have to their name. The void that everyone carries within them is filled with consuming and doing "bigger and better" things instead of intrinsically trying to learn and develop yourself. Materialistic goods only truly satisfy the heart for, id give it at most a week. Think about your iPhone, or your new car, when you bought it you were so ecstatic. By the end of that week, it became absorbed into another carry on baggage; an extension of yourself in materialistic form.

See this is what society and the sellers want you to do. You don't really NEED to get more and more stuff to clog up your free independent mind, you do it because your phone and everything around you are telling you that you must do it. Sellers brainwash you every day and make your own mind turn against you, telling you "if you don't have this or that you are not "happy". Well, once you get that new version you'll soon realize it's worthless compared to the next new thing and the cycle will go on and on. An everlasting pattern of consuming and negative brainwashing.

Humans are not meant to have all these worthless possessions. All these extra limbs of yourself only make you more stressed.

Imagine a room filled with all the things you believe you need. A TV blaring, a computer screen filled with blinking ads, a phone buzzing off the hook with twitter notifications, shinney video games, luxurious expensive furniture a closet full of the next trends and beeping cars and city lights surrounding you. Now imagine an empty room, maybe it has a small bed, a couple of your favorite outfits and food and water, only the essentials in life that you absolutely need, not what advertisements make you think you need. In many studies, the second room would make you happier, healthier, and actually make you feel more satisfied and complete as a person that the first room.

We've forgotten who we are. Who the people are. We're not mindless robots always on the search for more.There is enough for all of us to slow down, enjoy life, and truly be happy and at peace. Instead of getting more and more to try and give off the impression your "better" and therefore "happier", be happy for yourself and no one else.

'I think everybody should get rich and famous and do everything they ever dreamed of so they can see that it's not the answer.' — Jim Carrey

If you've read the article this far, congrats. Most people won't even take the time to read an article without flashy pictures or incentives that give them those needed seconds of gratification. For that fact, this article has no pictures, videos, or games, just black and white letters wanting to be understood.

So actually, the less, the better. The more you fill your mind and spirit with experiences, life lessons, friends, travel, or meditation, the better your life will be. Today in America people have become lost within themselves and think the only way to be happy and fulfilled fully is by buying more and more for those seconds of gratification. Everything and everyone is relying now on these seconds of pleasure. Just like a drug. Always coming to realize the next bigger better thing you need, never reaching their fulfillment. This will ALWAYS happen. You can't ever reach an end with this pattern. Not only this but the more and more humans try and strive for their answers in life by consuming, the more we destroy our own habitat. Our home, our planet. We consume and consume and come back feeling even more empty than before. We click our phones in search for the answers and become our phone, lost in a bombarding collection of our own consumption. Notifications, buzzers, alarms, credit card swipes, car engines, beeping, texting, weeping. While the Earth, the only really important thing for humans, is getting deteriorated in a smog of human compulsion.

You may be thinking. That's not me. Yes, it is. Everyone contributes, everyone is involved, everyone doesn't feel truly fulfilled and happy because of this very fact. We all are becoming objects, moving around in our own game that we have created for our very own demise.

If it's not our generation, who will it be? Certainly not the next, for they have grown up, their faces glued to a screen, always wanting more. Our parents even have succumbed to it, we think we are bad, imagine what is waiting for us.