I don't desire a wardrobe filled with clothes and matching accessories.
My favorite clothes are faded and have holes for being worn constantly. They easily fit in my grubby old backpack.
I wear a bracelet I got from a "last chance clearance sale" until it's so worn&torn it falls apart.
For I have discovered this: constantly buying and possessing new things does not fill up your life or make you happy. The more shoes, bags, jewelry, scarves and other junk you buy the more they come to possess you, not the other way around.
Freedom comes from having no more than you need. Freedom is happiness. When you have a closet full of clothes yet nothing to wear, are you really lacking another dress? Will that make you happy, really?
My life has dramatically become a happier one after I stopped "shopping" like a material girl. Now instead of constantly worrying about what to wear, how to accessorize and how I look, I feel more confident in who I am, happy with what I've got.
We are living in a material world, but we don't have to be material girls.
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