Bursting The Bubble

Shopping sprees are illusory ways of finding true happiness, realises Vanisha Uppal, having overcome this addiction after taking up meditation

- Vanisha Uppal

Festivals and celebrations allow us to indulge in shopping ‘officially’: “Let us buy a new car this New Year” or “It’s the right time to buy a new house.” The markets and malls entice us with their alluring varieties of clothes and food, not to mention the beauty salons in fashion now. All this shopping makes us feel good only for a short while, and yet we enjoy it every time. It’s the same with meeting family and friends. After an hour of being together, the same old stories are repeated and we run back to our comfort zone—that corner of our bed or sofa. This is all we need. But soon this realisation fades, and boredom takes us back to our same old exhausting ways.