Compulsory shopping and contrasts

Bond Street, Conduit Street and Regent Street one day; IKEA et al. in the industrial outskirts of Stockholm on the next. Contrasts in life when it comes to shopping. The compulsory shopping behaviour to alleviate unwelcome broken expectations seems to work in both worlds. The good thing is that I can stop whenever I want to. But I don't want to. The beauty of making your own money and not having to defend your extravagances to anyone who may have a different view on what you really really need (or just feel like getting because you can...).

How does this fit into the yogic life style? Well, it doesn't. Yet another contrast in life. And perhaps an evidence of the complexity we face when being part of a modern society. It would be much simpler to avoid compulsory shopping in a monastery in Nepal.