Gettin' Greedy

We're told from an early age that greed is bad. That greed is one of the seven deadly sins ( well, it is ). You know what? I am an advocator for greed, i don't think that it is such a bad thing all of the time. There are instances where greed is more bad than good. Stealing from other people, putting your needs over others, etc. But if you read over those reasons, it seems like sometimes they are what you have to do in order to survive. I don't want to steal from people, nor do i want to give off the vibe that i'd walk over your head to get what i need for myself, but i honestly believe put in the necessary situation, we'd all be walking over each other.

No one wants to admit that they are greedy because it makes one seem desperate and needy. Two unflattering personality profiles. In the social world that we inhabit, everyone wants to seem nonchalant and indifferent to basically everything. No one wants to shed light that they care. Greed symbolizes that you care so much that you'd bend over backwards to get more of what you want. Greed is being overindulgent and crapulent in what one enjoys, wants and loves. It's too much of a good thing and making sure one gets too much of a good thing. Maybe i should reconsider what i initially said which was that greed wasn't bad. Maybe, greed is natural sometimes. I know that it is for me. I mean, i understand why people become greedy. Especially if they already have something of a good thing. We get lulled into thinking that too much of a good thing isn't a bad thing at all. It's so easy to believe that you can't be too rich or too glamorous or too well liked. Over abundance these days seems to be the key in ensuring that what secures your worth is stable. We get insecure that what makes other people like us, enjoy us, covet us will run out and we will no longer enjoy their attention and efforts. It's an insecurity that is founded because nothing lasts forever, but the efforts in which we attempt to sustain and prolong our personal 'capital' does more damage to our reputation rather than strengthen it.

When i say that i don't think greed is such a bad thing, i guess what i mean is that I like that jet of energy that it injects into us. When we get a bit of a good thing, a part of us gets sold to the addiction. Most often, it can ruin us if we have addictive personalities. But before it heaps in tragedy, i like the intensity of that chase and the appeasement of attaining what we wanted more of. I'll be the first to admit that i am a greedy person because i enjoy what i enjoy and I never want it to end. I can't deny the fact that it's one of my more questionable personality traits that doesn't reflect too positively upon me, but who are exempt from those sorts of qualities? Greediness is one of mine.