,….my diaper is yellow.
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I feel the only difference between him and an ‘unusual’ collector is that he also had a hygiene and perhaps a self confidence issue.

For me this comic seems less about an attachment to an object and instead shows an attachment to a destructive belief.

Materialism is only a part of it. People purchase more and more not because it actually makes them happy directly, instead it gives them a sense of fuller self. In other words, it makes them feel good about their identities.

People could achieve the same effect by going into the wrong relationships, wrong careers, getting a lot of money, useless educations, or just dishonesty. People can get extremely desperate when they want to believe that they are respected by others or just by themselves.

Anyways, I thank you for your comment! If it wasn’t for Cyanide and Happiness, this site wouldn’t exist

I tried hard not to draw like them, I hope I succeeded lol

And that’s why I’m here, Steven. I love the comics, and the message. As long as you keep producing, I’ll be consuming your content. Keep doing what you’re doing because it’s LIGHTYEARS ahead of what other people are producing because it’s… different.

To make an analogy: you’re the Cyanide and Happiness of personal development
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you hit the sweet spot right there. Our society puts on the impression that the more we have (financially) the happier we will be.

However, the truth is that life is meaningful not because how much it costs, but because how profound and deep it is.

And the only way to make it profound and deep is to have meaningful relationships with people, and passionate personal goals. Both of these things have little or nothing to do with materialism at all.

Thanks for your input Zeenat

Thanks for reading

You are right. For me, the materials themselves means absolutely nothing, it is the idea and the emotions that we have attached to it that grants meaning that grows on us.

However, the message behind this comic is that if you are too attached to your materialism, then you are going to miss out on aspects of your life that truly matters (people).

I agree with your last sentence. Unfortunately, western society craves for this type of image. It teaches us – the more we have, the happier we will be. Which is completely false. Because once we go down that road of focusing on material possessions, we are going to create a hole that is never going to be filled.

Anyways, thanks for your input man, truly appreciate it:).

Hope you cut back on showing off Armen xD