Tuesday, July 29, 2008

Bit Materialistic Ideal

I was wearing blue denim diesel zathan jean with my dirty black all-stars takkies. With my ipod in my cellini, the feeling was good, playing music by my favourite artist, Thomas Chauke. His music can be equated to most classical music artists. I find his music relaxing, more especially when one is studying. Inside my cellini backpack was philosophy, economics and politics books which i study when not driving my red mini cooper and five times for an hour per week. My Apple macbook pro was the precious item that i had in my backpack. It contained my assignments that I was and working on for a ppe degree from the university of South Africa.

I couldn't get over the fact whether i was being overly materialistic with my lifestyle. Because i come across phrases which back up style, my head reminded me of the saying by Thabo Mbeki, outgoing South African president that 'greed works and South Africans are afraid of being rich'. Because he served not only as the president of the state someone I looked up to him for intellectual brilliance to brand myself not as a Moses who asked for wisdom without realising that you'll need to blend it with material resources. My thinking is derived from the fact that I see myself as not 'very selfish'. If I was selfish there would have been no reason for me to focus on my attempted thinking capability and reveal it.
Being material to me does not mean I do not have to own an apartment, which was designed to level with my personality. One bedroom combined with lounge and kitchen divided by a mini wall to make up an eating place plus a fitted gas and electric stove with a tap was the materialistic ideal. While i realised that my loss of words is not crime i hated the fact that I couldn't explain in detailed arrangement how the rest was like. However, I also knew that I had to admit that someone said I was full of 'I'.
Have you noticed 'I's in my communcation. I guess she was right but does it spoil my chances of one day becoming an eloquently persuasive, visionary, rether intelligent marketing director for some corporation that does mind the culture of difference? I hope not.

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