how to be pretentious.

I learnt it from my grandmother, she taught me how to play monopoly. She understood the name of the game is to acquire. She would accumulate everything she could and eventually she'd become the master of the board. And then she'd always say the same thing to me, she'd look at me and say 'one day, you'll learn to play the game.' One summer I played monopoly almost everyday, and all day long and that summer i learnt to play the game. I came to understand the only way to win is to make a total commitment to acquisition. I came to understand that money and possessions that's the way you keep score and by the end of that summer I was more ruthless than my grandmother, I was ready to bend the rules if I had to to win that game. I sat down to play her that fall, I took everything she had, I watched her give her last dollar and quit in utter defeat and then.. she had one more thing to teach me.. Then she said now it all goes back in the box. All those houses and hotels, all those railroads and utility companies, all that property and all that wonderful money, now it all goes back in the box.  None of it was really yours. You get all heated up about it for a while, but it was around for a long time before you sat down at the board, and it will be here after you're gone. Players come and players go. Houses and cars, titles and clothes, even your body. Cause the fact is.. that everything I clutch and consume and hoard is going to go back in the box, and I'm going to lose it all. You have to ask yourself.. when you've finally got the ultimate promotion when you've made the ultimate purchase  when you buy the ultimate home when you have built up financial security and climbed the ladder of success to the highest rung you can possibly climb it.. and the thrill wears off, and it will wear off, then what? How far do you have to walk down that road before you see where it leads? Surely you understand, it will never be enough.. So you have to ask yourself the question.. What matters?