Why does material things fill that gap?

It's funny, I went out with my mother and decided to buy a new laptop, I had one - but it was old and didn't want to communicate to well with me! So off we went and purchased a new laptop, not very cheap I might add, but hell it made me the happiest girl alive for those 20 minutes of carrying it around and installing all the new word documents etc.

I feel that this life is too materialistic, like we dote on the fact that "I have better than you"? Well that's at least how I feel. When last did you feel, "I don't need any fancy materialistic items to make me happy - I am healthy and I have loved ones" - you see we don't feel like that anymore, we see something and want it to make ourselves feel better and look good.

I can't say I don't do that either, cause I do. I got my laptop and bloated to the world that I had this amazing type of equipment that speaks to me and helps me do things when I don't have to do much - does that even make sense?

I guess, the world is no longer a place where children are children, we are brought up with the latest gadgets and the cell phone story from an age of 6 years old. That is pathetic! What is going to happen to the children in twenty years time - my children - I wont let them become another robot in society.

Life is too technical, and even I get confused by all these gadgets and things. What happened to just buying a radio that does simple things - NO, now you get something that plays from Bluetooth and when you walk past it switches on! Seriously, I don't want that, I want the good old radio.

I think I might be old fashioned but everything is passing us too quickly without us realising that we getting older and we still don't know what half of Cape Town looks like in life because we can Google the image instead. STOP AND SMELL THE ROSES. Life is getting shorter and we need to see what life is giving us and what we can get out of it - besides materialistic things.

Where did we go, and when did we come back programmed to be a robot and buy things we probably don't need but want for status material.