Today in my Purpose-Driven life book I found following passage that resonated with me and reminded me of my regular visits to the fleamarket:
We never really own anything during our brief stay on Earth. God just loans the earth to us while we’re here. It was God’s property before you arrived.
Fleamarket is full of antique items. Some of the might have been considered expensive, stylish even luxurious back in the day. But today it’s nothing but an oddity a rare collector would like to buy for a fraction of original cost. It could be 70s lamps, old photo and video cameras. Some items are so rare nowadays that nobody knows how to use them, not even the seller. Since the seller is probably a decedent of original buyer, now selling grandma’s stuff to get some cash.
Looking at how quick 50 years reduce the value of once-desired-objects it’s interesting to contemplate how the value of the today’s stylish gadgets and clothes will be changed in the future. So in perspective of centuries the now expensive laptop, new iphone, even a new e-car will become obsolete museum items, provided they will not meet their end in a dumpsite.
All of these variations of perceived objects’ value and price keeps leading me to the same question. If the object’s value decay even faster then objects themselves, what is the point of pursuing these things? Besides a fleeting sense of pleasure after the purchase.
Is it not better to spend one’s time and energy pursuing something that was is and will be valuable at any point in humanity’s history? Probably no material objects can satisfy such requirements. Which brings me to understanding that only knowledge, spiritual development and harmony with self, others and outside world are worth pursuing, as their value lies outside the influence of time and ever-changing society’s views…
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