A lot of owners of the 1st generation unibody Macbook have been expressing their unhappiness with the recent announcement of a 13" Macbook Pro with improved screen and battery life. Like many, I bought a unibody Macbook a few months before the announcement.
I wager most of us feel a temporary 'high' when we have the newest, shiniest toy and a slight 'low' when we see that something else has come out. But so long as you devote more and more of your attention to that new thing, I think you're gonna feel less and less happy in the long term.
Sure, I wish I could have the newer model, but guess what? Absolutely nothing in my life has changed EXCEPT by belief that I will be happier if I somehow get the new 13" Macbook Pro. I have all the same things I had before the announcement. I can do all the things I did before the announcement. And yet somehow it's easy to feel less. THAT's the power of materialism. The things we own end up owning us. A new laptop will be released in 6 months to a year. A tablet will EVENTUALLY be released. So long as the things I own serve their function, that's enough for me. Trying to keep at the forefront of the treadmill is exactly what makes people poor and unhappy.
My solution is to spend less time caring about what I own and more time enjoying my life. I'm going to spend less time reading reviews hoping to see some flaw in the new machine and more time writing and taking photographs and USING what I have.
Peace.
Michael
I wager most of us feel a temporary 'high' when we have the newest, shiniest toy and a slight 'low' when we see that something else has come out. But so long as you devote more and more of your attention to that new thing, I think you're gonna feel less and less happy in the long term.
Sure, I wish I could have the newer model, but guess what? Absolutely nothing in my life has changed EXCEPT by belief that I will be happier if I somehow get the new 13" Macbook Pro. I have all the same things I had before the announcement. I can do all the things I did before the announcement. And yet somehow it's easy to feel less. THAT's the power of materialism. The things we own end up owning us. A new laptop will be released in 6 months to a year. A tablet will EVENTUALLY be released. So long as the things I own serve their function, that's enough for me. Trying to keep at the forefront of the treadmill is exactly what makes people poor and unhappy.
My solution is to spend less time caring about what I own and more time enjoying my life. I'm going to spend less time reading reviews hoping to see some flaw in the new machine and more time writing and taking photographs and USING what I have.
Peace.
Michael
