When is "Enough" enough?

http://www.oprah.com/spirit/When-Enough-Is-Enough-Elizabeth-Lesser


This article really hit the nail on the head for me. Often I feel like I have to keep buying or keep doing or else I'm not successful. If I don't have the best phone , I feel like I'm behind the times. Or the need to shop every season instead of looking in my closet and finding cute things I own I might've forgotten about. Do these things really matter? Are they going to make me feel like a better person? Probably not. I wrote a paper for English class on the American Dream where I basically discussed a need for people to acquire things in life but at what cost. It was based on an article the teacher handed out...basically I agreed with the author stating, things are futile in life when they become obsessive. One has to weed out the cost of something internally as well as externally. I think we would all be better off living in a world where we would KNOW when enough is enough.