Every person looks at advertising in a different way. Many times people become so absorbed in their ideas of what they feel they want or desire to feel complete, that they forget about the things they really need. When people start to become so intent on what they believe they desire, they begin to lose who they really are. They become so obsessed with having the right brand-name products that they forget what is truly important: the necessities of life.
People go through their lives every day and don't even realize the impact that advertising and consumerism is having on them and their families. Society needs to realize that everyone's minds, even those of children are susceptible to the ideas of consumerism. People have become so obsessed with the idea of being better than everyone else that they don't realize the impact this has on those around them. Advertising is like a drug addiction. Consumers feel that they need it in their lives to make them complete. It gives them the extra edge they desire to have the things that they really want. Maybe, though, people should start thinking about the things they need to survive, instead of the things they want in order to be socially acceptable. People need to stop worrying about little things like the right shoes or the perfect designer clothes and start getting back to their roots, to their essentials. Like the song from the Disney movie The Jungle Book states, we've got to "look for the bare necessities of life".
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