Stuff Sickness

We spend so much time and effort trying to get money. Money to spend on a 'good' time. (translates as drugs) Going out on the weekend takes up almost all that we work for, and what do we have to show for it? A hangover? Some foggy memories with the feeling that we enjoyed whatever it was that we did? Hepatitis?
Admittedly most of our money does go towards rent or mortgage and food. Both of which are useful. It is the rest that disappears. We drink it, or spend it getting into places with flashing lights and loud noises, or we buy useless junk with it. It sometimes seems to become a competition of i can accumulate more junk than you. Or my junk is more expensive than your junk. We have flash mobile phones that we call and text each other on, but they could be used as a GPS if we wanted or a MP3 player if it didn't waste the battery, we buy flat screen TVs and play station games, we sometimes play when we are bored, when we have time, when we are not working. We buy flash jackets, brand name clothes and turbo cars. We can get so immersed in this competition, that it becomes a lifestyle, a goal to give us something to achieve with the fake sense that when we win we will be happy, we forget that it is just a game, and that we can never win. We sometimes even forget that we don't need to win, that we are capable of being happy, and feeling good, when we make enough to eat, to stay somewhere, and have some time to go surfing or bush walking or just to chill with mates. We can be satisfied with the simple life, we are capable of so much more when we stop wasting our time in clubs where we cant even hear each other and socialize in each others company. We are generally happier not with our stuff, but with our mates.