Worrying about damaging material items enslaves you. You have to USE them. Scuff the watch. Use the Mont Blanc everyday. Wear your beautiful loafers. Stop saving things for a specific occasion. It might never come. You have to treat these things as what they are - tools to improve your experience of life itself.
When Palantir CEO Alex Karp worked on his PhD in Neoclassical Social Philosophy in Frankfurt, he would smoke cigars and think about the “conscious subconscious.”
The sensitive young man has little interest in work. He dreams of exploring the world, smoking cigarettes by the sea, and spending long hours reading in cafés, like an aristocrat of the soul.
All I want in life is an oceanfront estate somewhere in the tropics, a loyal Männerbund, a few concubines, a small private militia and a vintage land rover convertible...
...and a green polo