We live in a consumer-obsessed culture. We buy-buy--buy-buy to NO END!!!! Amazon has made this only worse. Now we don't have to go anywhere to buy stuff. We click and PRESTO - it is at our door!!!
If we would be happy with what really matters - being connected to Hashem - we would save a AWFUL lot of money!!!!
When you look further into the matter, you will see that true perfection lies only in clinging to G-d. This is what King David said "But as for me, closeness to G-d is my good" (Ps. 73:28) and, "one thing I asked from G-d; that I seek, that I may dwell in G-d's house all the days of my life, to gaze on the pleasantness of G-d..." (Ps. 27:4). For only this is the good, while anything besides this that people consider good is really emptiness and mistaken worthlessness.
Remember the rule: The more spiritual you are - the less stuff you need. The less spiritual - the more stuff you will need.
There are many people who live their lives from one vacation to the next even though their permanent dwellings are QUITE luxurious. This usually means that something is missing in their souls and they are desperately trying to fill that lacuna with vacations.
The neshama needs very little stuff and very few vacations - if any.
I think of Shaquille O'neal sitting on his 31,000 square foot mansion [there is a guided tour on line of you are interested...] ALL BY HIMSELF. No wife. No children living there. Just sitting by himself all day trying desperately to convince himself how good he has it because look at how beautiful his property is.
And the Ramchal cries that it is all הבל ושוא נתעהR' Uri Zohar lived in a hovel only slightly larger than the grave he presently occupies and he was FILLED with happiness. He was living קרבת אלהים לי טוב.
