material girl?

So, I've been having some recent wonderings. Money has been a hot topic lately, perhaps because I'm working really hard at paying off my debt, and I think I'm just sort of processing some things I've heard recently. "I was working in a job that payed very little, wondering if the grass was really greener on the other side, and it was." I find that I am completely baffled by this comment, maybe more so because it came from another believer. I really get confused and frustrated by comments like these because I can't understand how people who are already blessed with so much (because we live in a country where we are free to openly worship God) are so desperate for more. Of course, when I say more, I don't mean more of God. As a culture, we're clearly not desperate for Him. We're desperate for more stuff...probably because we think it will satisfy the space in our lives that was meant for Jesus, but I digress. I fall into it too and it's something that I've been asking God to change in me. My perspective is so much different than it used to be. I don't want more money so I can get stuff for myself...I want more money so I can help more people. I have seen, read, and heard - from friends who've been there - about so much injustice, suffering, & poverty in the world, that all I want to do is help those people and yet I sit in my house, on my really cozy bed, with more clothes than I would ever wear and a laptop computer that I bought last year when my desktop conked out. I'm not saying that it's bad to have stuff, I'm just really tired of how incredibly materialistic our culture has become...me included...and I think that it's good to re-evaluate where our money is going and to really try to put things into perspective. I mean, we can't take any of that STUFF with us, but investing in lives...investing in relationships...those are treasures worth pursuing.