Possession, Possessions, and Theft

Possession - 1) The act of having or taking into control.  2)  Something owned, occupied, or controlled.  (Meriam-Webster's dictionary.)


An ex-girlfriend of mine once remarked it was really difficult to buy me presents because I don't "like stuff".  I did have cd's, dvd's, t.v., clothes and books.  But I never invested myself in things.  My pictures were in a box, my clothes on hangers, books on shelves and so on.  If one were to see my room, they would notice blank walls more than anything else.  They would eventually see the total lack of knick-knacks and so on.

My ex's comment was said to me on my birthday, at dinner with my mom.  My mom nodded in agreement with her.  She didn't say how long she tried to find the gift she gave me, which was a box set of early George Carlin dvd's (I still have that one).  While she totally nailed that present, it got me thinking on the nature of possessions and why specific things matter to us.

When we buy things, we are imbuing those objects with our energy.  We had to work to obtain the money to buy the thing.  It's an energetic trade.  Those things we care about most (not people, nor pets) we wind up putting more of our energy into. 

When we have our things stolen, the common response is emotionally painful to one degree, or another.  The things that were stolen from us aren't the cause of the pain, rather it is the theft of the energy we have placed in these objects that hurts.  The trinket holds small parts of ourselves.  When the theft occurs, it is small parts of ourselves that is being stolen.

This leads to the question, what is it doing the possessing?  Us? Or the object?