This guy is a trip and a half! I don't know about anyone else but to me he seemed to make people sound very materialistic. Which is true. It could almost be described as greedy, because we have so much stuff and we always want more.
He made me think that if we would just stop and look at what we have and think, do we really need so much? The things we own and hold in such high regard aren't that important in once sense. But in another view, they are. I guess those things we have make us feel safe, because they are "our" things. We paid for them, maintain them, and have memories attached to them. That is why other people feel awkward in other people’s homes, because it is not "their" home, it is not "their" stuff.
No matter where we go, or what we do, we always want/have to have something of ours there to give us that sense of security. To an extent, our stuff is our sense of security, a portion of our personality in a sense. That is a problem for people who hoard stuff. The item itself doesn’t mean much, it is the memory they have attached to it that makes it difficult to get rid of.
In the beginning, that is what started Freyer’s journey. After selling his stuff to people all around the world. The memory was still there as well as the curiosity to see what they new owner has done with it. He was able to let go of it though, because maybe he found out that it was just stuff. If you thing about it, that’s all it is. People need to realize that the memory will still be there weather the object is or not.
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