Luxury
"The state of great comfort and extravagant living." This is how luxury is defined. And this is how I would have wanted to live the rest of my life if I had it all my way. I mean, come on! Who wouldn't want to live in physical and material comfort and abundance in a world that entices us to get all that we can get out of it. At one point in my life I had desired to live the ultimate luxuriant life : have a high-paying, white collar job; live in an expensive mansion with acres and acres of nature surrounding it; have a pool and my own home theater inside the house; travel the world on a regular basis. This would then signify to me and to others that "I have made it" ! At another point in my life I tried to live a semi-luxurious kind of life by buying fancy clothes at full price, getting stylish shoes, dining at nice restaurants, collecting music and movie CDs and feeling like a connoisseur while doing so. It felt like I was trending with the Joneses wa...