Material Girl...

Some of you will know this song, by Madonna. Well I heard it today on at work at SEARS and well I have never really listened to the lyrics until now. How sad...yet it is so true how we are "living in a material world". Don't believe me look at the television adds. It is so sad to see how we need to please the flesh. Just to let you know: you will never sastify the flesh with things. No matter how many shoes, gagets, CD's or pericings will ever sasify you. Haven't you noticed yet? I have...I have a lot of things that are material and the harder I try to hold onto them the faster it seems they fade away. I know what it feels like to feel incomplete, to try to find something to fill it. Straight A's don't even come close, compliments don't cut it either. I only craved more. That can be draining on anyone. I tried to be anything you wanted me to be so I good get just one nice thing said about me.

The lyrics:

Material Girl:
Some boys kiss me, some boys hug me
I think they're o.k.
If they don't give me proper credit
I just walk away

They can beg and they can plead
But they can't see the light, that's right
'cause the boy with the cold hard cash
Is always mister right, 'cause we are

Chorus:
Living in a material world
And i am a material girl
You know that we are living in a material world
And i am a material girl

Some boys romance, some boys slow dance
That's all right with me
If they can't raise my interest then i
Have to let them be

Some boys try and some boys lie but
I don't let them play
Only boys who save their pennies
Make my rainy day, 'cause they are

(chorus)

Living in a material world [material]
Living in a material world
(repeat)

Boys may come and boys may go
And that's all right you see
Experience has made me rich
And now they're after me, 'cause everybody's
(chorus)

A material, a material, a material, a material world
Living in a material world [material]
Living in a material world
(repeat and fade)

Has the world really fallen to this kind of emtiness? Have we allowed it to over take us and make us miserable? Allow this hole in ourselves become us? I think we have. This hole that is in all human beings has become us. We are empty and living a meaningless life. There is no point to our lives if we live to shop or golf or quad. If that is what we live for the world has been reduced to nothing. Everything is utterly pointless.

I can't understand how so many can live like this. Don't you feel it? That pain that can never be healed? The restlessness, or the boredem that can never be quenched? You can fill up your life with activities and at night when the darkness closes in don't you feel alone: unsatisfied?

So do you?