We live in a world so lost in what it con­sumes that many people find them­selves con­tinu­ally try­ing to define who they are by the stuff they own. Some­thing so deftly summed up by Shawn in his post:

Instead, look at how he (or she) treats his fam­ily. What is his char­ac­ter like? Look at his rela­tion­ships and his beliefs and how he spends his time. These things — the meta­phys­ical, the intan­gible — they are the true exten­sion of the soul.