MY POSSESSIONS, MYSELF

My Possessions, Myself

Jose Peralta, Gustavo Abrego, Juan David VIllegas and Anthony Pitti

Positive Quote

“Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you’ll start having positive results.”

Willie Nelson

Background

People’s sense of identity is shaped in part by their material possessions. Gifts, heirlooms, memories, other people, and pets are also extensions of the self and are the connections between what we have, what we do, and who we are.

Author

Russell W. Belk is an authority in the field of consumer research. His work focuses on how people relate to each other through possessions. Belk received a B.S. and a Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota. He has taught marketing at University of Exeter in England and York University in Canada.

Moral Value

People’s possessions are very important to them. People usually separate their items into groups. Such as the following, self and non-self. Objects are important to us, but not as important as or body parts, self group.Out of our everyday objects, some of the well know important ones are cars, homes, and clothes.These items may vary importance do to the person’s age at the time. Also having to do with age, the older you get the more you see to take care of an item.

Factors

The fact that jewelry, weapons, and domestic utensils are found in prehistoric burial sites is evidence that we have long considered possessions as part of the person, even after death.

Conclusion

In his “My possessions, Myself”, Russell W. Russell W. Belk point is that individuals should not depend too heavily on materialism to comfort or make us happy. Finally, it may not appear as such an immense deal, but we as humans should seek love and peace in other important factors, not items or possessions.

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