I would grab him by the arm, stare intensely into his eyes without blinking even once and say: "Yet it does exactly the same thing as my watch. And I can choose to smash mine into a wall whenever I want. You cannot. You are attached to that object - you don't own it, not really. It owns you more than you own it - it is your master, and that's why you feel the need to show it off. You are not rich, you own nothing except for the illusion of wealth. You are not rich until you can smash that watch into a wall without a second thought - and feel nothing. And when you find that you actually can't do it - you will realize that the true cost of your watch wasn't your money, it was your freedom. You have enslaved yourself for nothing to the symbol of time. From now on, every fateful tick of that fancy watch of yours will serve as a reminder of your inevitable death - the final culmination of the misery you have wrought upon yourself out of your own vanity and greed. There, I have ruined your watch for you. It is now a cursed object, whether you believe it or not. Ages will pass, oceans dry out, and you will have turned into dust and ash once all is said and done. You will not survive that watch, you see. That watch will survive you. You will have become nothing in its wake." 😂 ![[IMG_3926.jpeg]]