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Shopping Love

Shopping Love There was a stage when it became fashionable for the apparently educated to argue that things are ideas. If a writer stated that a country is an idea, then a star followed suit by opining that age is an idea. Everything became states of mind. It was easy to keep off the beaten track and claim exception through this act of ideation. Will it be possible now to claim that shopping too is an idea, a state of mind ? There is a question which seems to be a standard one when the interviewee happens to be a celebrity of the cinematic kind.  The query is, 'Do you love shopping?' Though not all the celebrities declare their passions for shopping , general feel is that they love it. Can shopping be something one loves like listening to music or walking, like reading or helping others? People who love reading read and it has its innumerable positives. Those who travel or those who paint too can claim similar dividends for their passions. But what do the people who love