In contradiction to what people think, the concept of fate is fake;. American television actor Roger Smith once said, “You don’t just stumble into the future, you make your own”.” Where is the line between hopelessly dreaming for something and its becoming reality? For a better understanding, imagine spending so much time whining and wailing about the things one doesn’t have. What wioulld happen if they actually loset everything? Can materialism really poison one’s way of life? The desire to be rich and popular is what took Madame Loisel’s middle-class stature and turned it into a life lesson. In “The Necklace” by Guy de Maupassant, Mathilde Loisel gets so lost in the thought of becoming rich that her fear of being pooverty becomes reality, showing that one must not dwell on materialism, rather think about what one can become, not what one has become.