MATERIAL SELF

According to William James our self is everthing that an individual considers to be his or her. not only his or her body and material possessions but also his or her reputation and beliefs. In the lesson that my classmate tackles, i learned from their report that the material self has three basic components; the body, clothes and possession. The role of Possession on our life is to identify of one’s status. The possessions of cars, Houses, gadgets and clothes are some of the most valuable possession because that is the most visible in the eyes of other people that the more material are expensive the more other people are impressed. material possession can cause dominate effect on peoples life. People Nowadays, Believed that possessions reflect the values of life. But in reality Material possession can make people feel that they are above. Mean to say they feel that they are rich and such. Being materialism has bad effect. Because if your being materialism, you always spend money even though the item that you’ll buy is not important or in other word for your own pleasure and to satisfy your wants. Some people tend to measure success through the amount of their material possessions it is becomes a self urging to dream high of achievement in order to be able to get more possessions. and when someone experience the lack or lost of material possession. They tend to have mental breakdown because of losing their material possessions or they dont have anything or cant buy any possession so they tend to get jealous. For me, material possessions is just a thing that can be replace. But on the other side, material possessions is important to satisfy your self and before you achieve it you need to strive hard to buy all you want in life. And to feel the satisfaction in life