We think, and this is a question that human beings have always asked themselves, that naturally, human beings are greedy.
Just take a look around us and see that, the more you have, the more you want: money, power, prestige… It is something that can be appreciated simply by paying a little attention to our surroundings.
This is something that is worth analyzing, since the consequences that arise from this behavior are not positive at all for the people who suffer from them. It’s more, When someone feels that emptiness, that something is missing in their life, they tend to want to feel better by accumulating objects They want to have more of everything: clothes, money… and, of course, why not turn to drugs, if everyone says they make you forget your problems and feel better?
The drawback, to put it mildly, is that when this type of palliative is used, it is generally a temporary solution. When the effect of the purchase or consumption wears off, we return to being as before and we want to feel good again, so we again fall into the object of addiction to avoid the emptiness we talked about before.
Unfortunately, we live in a world where, the vast majority of the time, people are measured by what they have. Not because of his intelligence, nor because of his human quality, but because of the material It is the one who has the most money or the most power that must be followed. And this is addictive, wanting more and more takes us to a point where it is difficult to satisfy our desire to have more.
This, on the other hand, makes us think about the reality of the halo effect If you don’t know it, we will tell you that it is more common than you might think, and that it consists of the attribution of certain characteristics to two people based on a single one, which is the one that catches our attention. For example, if you have a nice car, you are too smart to have earned the money to buy it.
Now, this presents a major drawback. The fact that by making these value judgments, in the end, we can end up believing them What we mean is that those false beliefs and misconceptions end up being part of us, and we end up thinking that to be good, to have any value, we need to have much more than we have.
This thinking results in the fact that we only think about getting more than what we have, but not only to feel better, but to show how good we are to others. It is the typical “you have so much, you are worth so much”.
The much you have, the much you worth?
We tend to want more, we are ambitious and we want to “thrive”; But in reality, the saying “it is not the richer who has the most, but the one who needs the least” is a great truth. There are religions like Buddhism that reject desire and greed, because, according to their practitioners, It is very difficult to satisfy that desire to possess things and, if we talk about the needs that we create for ourselves, it is much worse, since by not being able to satisfy them we suffer unnecessarily.
In a way, If we have more things we can have a worse time, since we will cling more intensely to material things and if we lose something, we will have much greater discomfort.
All this makes us ask ourselves something: if as human beings we meet basic and inherent needs (namely, food and affection), What happens in us so that we are not satisfied and seek more?
Is it possible that this happens because of something we have been learning throughout our lives? Maybe it’s because we’ve always been told not to settle? Isn’t the basics enough? Maybe…
Why not see it from another perspective?
You already know this, but we still insist. When you seek to have more always, at all times, that can make you create in yourself an inner void that is difficult to fill That emptiness, that feeling that you are incomplete and that something is missing can make you look for what you don’t have in the wrong places, for example, drugs.
It is important that you know how to value what you have, which is a lot. If you have people around you who care about you and support you, you have a lot. Friends are also important, and you must know how to value them, as well as those small moments that seem insignificant, but in reality are not.
Remember at all times that you are as valuable and as important as the person next to you, and that it is you that makes you who you are, not the car you drive or the brand of clothing you have. It’s you.
