What describes a materialistic person?  Always thinking of material things, properties, wealth, cash, gold, vehicles and the list is just endless. Today he buys the best model car, tomorrow there he replaces it with another one and it goes on. There is no place for the word ‘contentment’ in the dictionary of a materialistic person.

Once a desire is fulfilled, it is replaced with another one. If one wish materializes another one comes up and the wheel goes on and on. So, frankly speaking, a person running after the things in the world can never lead a peaceful and contended life. This is what all the spiritual persons of the world since ages have been teaching us, but now research has proved this fact that those persons who are purely leading materialistic life can never lead a happy and satisfied life.

Materialistic people always see what they lack and what they want to have, so they are never happy with, and are grateful for, what they have in life, this leads to lack of satisfaction and depression in life. On the other hand, those people who are grateful for what they have and lead a life filled with gratitude have a positive outlook towards life and are likely to be more satisfied and happy with their life.

It can be simply explained with the help of a glass of water, which is half-filled. Some people may look at it as atleast half full and feel happy about it and there are sections of people who look at it as half empty and feel depressed about it. So, It is not wise to lead a materialistic life completely and avoid spiritual life. Once we learn how to strike a balance between both, we will be able to lead a complete and meaningful life.

So, want to lead a happy and satisfied life? Then don’t lead ‘just’ materialistic life.