You're overspending because you lack values
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You're overspending because you lack values
You lack spirit, not another fashion identity. You don’t need another aesthetic, you need stronger values.
You're overspending because you lack values
What I think is more likely the culprit when someone overconsumes, is a lack of value (not a lack of values).
When I have not valued myself, that is, believed myself to be valuable, I have tried inadvertently to be valuable by gaining (and therefore being associated with) things of value.
When I have not valued myself, that is, believed myself to be valuable, I have tried inadvertently to be valuable by gaining (and therefore being associated with) things of value.
This doesn’t mean we can easily abandon them though, but rather that marketing, social pressure, the expectation that our identity be expressed through consumption (and the evisceration of other avenues for its expression) conspire to make these ‘needs’ feel urgent and deep.