The Things We Appreciate

I was sitting in my house when I heard a huge crash in the kitchen. I turned my head to see my brother picking up the pieces of his gumball machine he bought twenty minutes before. My mom hadn't even had time to take the money back from him and he had already ruined his new toy. But this isn't a new thing. My brother has managed to break all of the toys that I had been I was a kid and passed down to him. I have realized that he doesn't care about the things that he has like I did when I was his age. It isn't just my youngest sibling but all my younger siblings who don't care as much as I do. My eldest little sister continually drops her cell phone which is sure to break one of these days. My littler little sister has lost her iPod more times than I can count. She is now forced to give it to my mom everytime that she is not currently listening to it.

So what happend? I don't think that I have ever not cared about what I had. I have only ever had a few things because I don't like to spend money and I have to buy things for myself mostly. Maybe that is it; my siblings have gotten more things from my parents money so they don't appreciate the things they have as much.

Or is it more of what we talked about in AP US. We as a country have started to make products that fall apart faster than ever. 1% of all products we buy are still in use six months after they were purchased. If that is true, then my family fits in to that catagory. Maybe we aren't so different from the rest of the world but it is still wrong to live like this. I hope that one day we can stop being so wasteful but I doubt it will happen soon. Until then we will have to live with throwing away everything.