Materialism Cont.

Ok, so what if you live a materialistic lifestyle, and then there's a house fire, and everything is gone.  The home, the things you've collected, the things you've made.  Nothing left.  What now?  What do you have to show for your life?  But alternatively, if you live for the moment, for the experiences, then nobody can take those away from you, unless maybe you get cracked in the head and become partially brain dead, or when senility sets in...  but anyway, yeah, you'll probably have those experiences to revisit in your mind forever, but there will be nothing left behind.  Your grandchild won't have anything to remember you by.  Will they know who you were, why you were, what you did, what you felt and learned?  Probably not.  I guess you could keep a journal, but then that's a material thing that could be lost by the airport luggage handlers, or dropped into the Ganges river, or torched in a house fire.