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Things are just things. If you define yourself by the things you have collected, you don't have much. Case in point:
I was at the BMW Dealer the other week picking up the wife's car from routine service, and had to wait because they were busy, and so while I was waiting, I couldn't help overhearing this dude talking to the service manager, trying to squeeze as much as he could out of what was left of his warranty and eliminate the costly repairs he was facing somehow. The service manager asked him, "Why did you buy a luxury car if you can't afford the maintenance on it?" and the dude said, "Would you believe just two years ago I was making $300k per year? Now I can't afford the tow truck to get it here!"
Lesson: You can work your ass off for years, spend your time & money acquiring expensive things, and lose it all in the blink of an eye. If you define yourself by your things, what then when you lose those things?
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