Many people quit looking for work when they find a job. Many people spend their health for wealth, and then try to spend their wealth for health. Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart. Many years ago, a large American shoe company sent two sales representatives out to different parts of the Australian outback to see if they could drum up some business among the Aborigines. Some time later, the company received telegrams from both agents.
Marriage has no guarantees.
If that's what you're looking for, go live with a car battery. Materialism is buying things we don't need, with money we don't have, to impress people who don't matter. Maturity has more to do with what types of experiences you've had and what you've learned from them and less to do with how many birthdays you've celebrated. May you be in heaven half an hour before the devil knows you are dead. May you have enough happiness to make you sweet, enough trials to make you strong, enough sorrow to keep you human, enough hope to make you happy and enough money to buy gifts.