Flimsy

What effect does it have on the way we value objects to put our hearts into flimsy or short-lived products that necessarily break or go obsolete?

I know the I have had my heart broken a couple of times by indurable objects. Loving my 12" powerbook, and then killing it with apple juices makes me much less inclined to love its successor, cause I feel like it's just going to break anyway. Treasuring a pair of glasses that I found at the flea market, only to drop one in the sink while washing it, and break it, makes me shy away from it's twin, I avoid using it cause I feel like it's going to break if I do. In addition, every time I see it my heart breaks a little cause I know I am just going to accidentally break it anyway, while pulling something else out of the cupboard, or if one of my roommates decides to use it. My iPod, which I loved and paid a lot of money for 2 years ago, that is now about 5 generations behind, and not nearly as beautiful as the new ones, also the fact that it crashed, and I can't afford to repair it. Makes me much more careful about buying a new one, it'll just go obsolete in the end anyway. I suppose the effect that flimsy objects have had on me is that it's becoming harder for me to put my heart into objects made of glass or technology, I love them, but I know that I can't have them forever. It's almost like be married to someone with cancer, it's great, but you know it's going to end, and you'll have to keep on living without them.