Insatiable

As many of you know I am "Baylor Bound." I have an apartment all lined up with an awesome roomie and a great class schedule to boot. However, I am having a bit of trouble currently. You see, moving means packing, packing means organizing, and organizing means that things are going very slowly. I think one of the most important things I've learned about myself (and probably others too) as I've been packing is that as a human I am drawn to purchase things that I never use. I see them on tv or in the store and think "Wow! That's just what I need," (despite the fact that I've never needed it before) "I'll buy it." Inevitably, I get it home, put it away, never use it, and over time forget I even have the darn thing. I wish that I could say I have only found one or two of these objects as I've been packing. Unfortunately, I must admit that I have dozens or more. It's sad. I look at these things and wonder how much money I could have saved if I hadn't bought any of them. What could I have gotten of real value if I had restrained myself? *sigh* Isn't it sad and ironic that so many of us buy things we'll never use, while children starve in third world countries? I have so much to be grateful for, to be satisfied with, and yet it is only human nature to want more. Perhaps one day more people will realize that they could be using all that wasted money to literally improve the world or at least one childs world. Until then it's "eat more, drink more, want more America because you'll never have enough."