The world is a marketplace

The world seems to be a marketplace. Everywhere you will find people selling or trying to sell something to you. If a person approaches you in a shopping mall or near grocery store, you anticipate that he is trying to give some info about some card, some scheme and trying to sell. The anticipation becomes truth in most of the cases. Similar is the case when you are receiving the call from some unknown person. Most of the time it is related to credit card, loan, overdraft facility etc. Why is so much of focus on the consumerism. Are we born to consume as many things as possible and if we consume less, are we lesser than the person who consume more. If you open any media tv, radio and newspaper, there also it is full of commercials promoting something or the other. 

Just because it is visible in the market, is it required that I need to buy it. Sometimes it happens that we see the item in the market and then visualize why is that item needed by us and then consciously justify the need of buying it and then finally buy it. The buying spree and the consuming trends has made us dependent on the consumables and after using them repeatedly, mentally we have decided that we cannot live without that object. But to start with we were not using that object earlier. 

There is another type of people which are going the opposite way. Consume less and consume what is required and attain peace. The more item you have, the more time will be spent on thinking about those items and maintaining those. If you have a suitcase and 10 items with you, you just need to think about those items and move around easily. But you have 1000 items with you, your mind will always be thinking about one or the other items. These people who want to live in less are called Minimalist. 

More money in the market, getting good salary and getting easy loan, access to credit card to purchase anything has enabled the behavior of excessive purchasing. The purchasing of items outside the capacity and beyond the need becomes an addiction. The situation starts when you do a job to earn and run your house and it ends that you cannot afford to loose the job as you have unnecessary liabilities, loans against you which in the first place could have been avoided.