My Wood

After reading "My Wood" by forster I stumbled across on interpretation of this quote. When you own something you loose a number of things. Depending on the person what you lose is a good price to pay, to others it isn't but in the end it becomes a trade-off. It is up to the individual to decide what is important: freedom, selflessness, and the ability to have no restrants on personal creativity or possesstion.

The first thing you potentially lose is freedom. With every item you add to your collection of objects you become that much lmore tied to you enviroment. Making it harder to be a wondering traveler. Possesstions become you ball and chain to the place you live. I say this because with each added possesion it becomes harder to detach yourself from the life you have made for yourself in your enviroment.

Secondly, you lose a capacity to be self-less. With the ownership of possessions you shift your focus slightly more toward yourself because these possesstions are your things and and that might cause you to be a little more introverted and possibly become a marcissist (in the more extreame case). It is natural to become protective of you things and tend to be a little more selfish. Envy and jealousy may also find it's way into your heart because people will always have bigger and better things. Possibly even becoming greedy. Greedy people often are never stisfied with what they have alway searching to fulfill this new need for "everything" Which perpetuates your loss of freedom.

Lastly, you might lose a sense of creativity. Your possesions soon deceive you into thinking that it's a sufficent outlet of creativity. Causing restlessness of the mind we may not be aware of. We are substituting propety and possesstions for creation and happiness. Worst thing is none of us maybe aware of this shift of thinking. It may even cause loss of self.

This is a sort of parapharse and my own personal interpretation. I linked the oringinal essay to this post for you "reading pleasure".