The Greed Beyond the Need

 

                                                    The Greed Beyond the Need

Every individual among us is running. We all are running for money as we do feel that it is the only solution to all our problems, indeed it is as well. But the problem is that there is no target to be achieved when you start running this race.

You start earning from a scratch and you are highly motivated, aiming to earn some money that would make you meet both the ends and provide a good life to your family. You dream that if and if I can afford a car, it would bring end to all my misery and I would travel happily with my family. But once you buy that car, another need strikes your mind. May be if I can have an own house of my big enough for my family, may be having this house could put me at peace and I could feel a sense of accomplishment in my life. You start working hard and invest few more years of your life. During these few years you compromise on things that you like and the moments you enjoy. Maybe you would be sacrificing some good times that you could have spent with your family or friends, but eventually you make this sacrifice to get into a new house where you could eventually enjoy with your family.

So in this way we keep on setting targets that are worldly in nature but we associate a feeling of happiness and accomplishment when we achieve it, but in the duration we compromise with the things and the moments that we actually want to live on the accomplishment of the objectives.

Time passes and flies, but we are eventually trapped in self-created targets that we eventually feel would be the source of our happiness and would add to good times for the future. But somewhere deep inside our heart we feel the pain of giving up the things we like, the small gifts the small talks and the precious time we give upon with our loved ones in order to build a house and a good future for our families.

We never realize that this habit of ours slowly gets transformed from need to greed and we just keep on running after unlimited targets in this limited life where eventually we have limited days and limited years to survive on this earth. Working for families is needed and indeed is essential but we forget the true essence of life and then comes a point when we realize that may be we have come too far in the search of happiness and indeed we actually missed upon the true moments of happiness and joy that we could have lived to the fullest.

So it is better that we start differentiating between our needs and our greed and rather invest this limited time on the feelings on the moments that really make us feel happy and also make our families feel happy and bonded because this is the real happiness and no cars, no houses could bring this feeling of joy and warmth that love, care and affection could bring to us.

It is very important to understand the difference between need and greed because there exists a very fine line of differentiation between need and greed and each one of us has to define that boundary so that we do not cross the boundary and start wasting our time chasing the greed because greed has no end and we can never satisfy our greed, even though needs could be satisfied and fulfilled and they could bring in satisfaction to our lives but by being greedy we just ruin ourselves of the precious time we do have in our life.

Thus we need to realize that we do not have infinite time with us and so we do not require infinite resources to fulfil this life with materialistic things, instead we should aim for a peaceful life that provides us with happiness, satisfaction and contentment because it is these aspects that would eventually make us feel to add a meaning to life and would eventually help us to derive more in our life.

It is rightly said that we only live once but if we live right once is enough, so it means that we should realize that what is right for us and what is not because if we do not realize this aspect it would add misery and increase more challenges in life, might be we could earn more with this approach but we would eventually drift far away from what real happiness is and this should not be the aim of life, instead we should focus on acquiring a peaceful and meaningful life.

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