The Things We Buy To Cover Up What's Inside

People buy things for various reasons. Some people buy things because they want them. Others buy things because they need them. A lot of people buy things to impress others and to put on a persona of having a lot of money or being something that they are not. The things we buy can be a part of the identity that we have. In our society today we have a tendency to judge people based on what a person has or where they come from. What some people do to counter this is that they know that they will be judge on where they come from, so they will buy things that will make it seem like they do not come from a bad place.

If I was to tell you that this person came from Compton, instantly you would think this person is probably a thug and is in a gang, and is an overall bad person. It is sad to that, but that is exactly how people are now. To look into how people buy things to look like they are a rich person or to look like they are cool, we can look at any "reality" TV show.

Lets look at the show "Tool Academy," to be honest the people on that show are not just tools, but they are all the entire tool shed. Almost everyone one of them every week say something about buying stuff to look like they are not who they really are, and to add to their persona that they portray to others. The one guy said that he came from a very poor family, so that to look like he didn't he bought tons of expensive clothing and things to hide the fact that he came from a poor family. He even admitted to not talking about his family at all.
Another person on the show said that he was nothing without his "bling," and that he buys it all to just keep up with his fake personality that he wants everyone to see. All of the people use their external items to cover up what is really going on inside of them. They need to find their identities, their true identities. We put too much pressure on people to look a certain way and to act a certain way, that it is difficult for people to find their true selves. We can not allow for the things we buy to determine who we are as a person.

A lot of the problems that people have with identity, all stems from society in how judging and mean we are to one another. To fix a lot of the problems we have, it would have to start with changing society as a whole, which is an impossible task. In order to better ourselves and to get to the point of finding ourselves, we must just focus on ourselves and just don' t care about what others think.

The message from this is to find the things that you want to buy and not what others would want to see or want you to buy. Buy the things that don't cover up what's inside.