Hello tee,

there is some great truth in this I guess. My parents never judged materialistic people, they themselves are very “rich” without living like it, also had friends which were living a very materialistic life.

But I am sure you are right about the fact that I don’t value outer accomplishments that much, it just doesn’t fulfill me, I think this is the key point – I think I need to make a choice in some sort of way, I don’t want o to impoverish myself, but I want to leave the consumption-oriented business, I think these things are harming our planet and our future livelihood and I can see and feel that this is not in accordance to what I want to be living.

I think you might be right about that, that I don’t think it goes together, at the same time I agree with you, I know a lot of rich, humble people. BUT I don’t want to be getting rich from selling things, I don’t want to add more to consumption, and I don’t want to exploit resources more, I guess my point of view is more like this:
Living a capitalistic life and nurturing capitalistic tendencies don’t go together with my concept of not harming other living beings.

But anyway, thank you a lot for your input it gave me a lot to think about and I think you are right about a lot of things and i have more understanding now to further improve my well-being.