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autumnluv143I was wondering when desire turned into greed. When is it safe to say that following your desires is still at a healthy obsession level? What is the line that's crossed that turns it into greed?
I would like to think that as long as you are not stepping on everyone to get what you want and then hoarding all the good feelings searching for that goal alone, you are still in a healthy frame of mind. Then again, in the last couple of years, I've finally come to realize that the term "healthy" is objective. Maybe even the former sentence is still too broad an idea...
Is money considered greed? We all want something we can't have or can't afford, but would us finding a way to get what we want because it would satisfy that overt need inside our own heads be beyond that "healthy" line?
Working hard and setting goals is healthy, but if the goal is to be rich and famous, is it still under the same category? This isn't self-reflection really. I would like to make enough money to pay my bills and have some left over to save and spend. I don't think that's too much to ask. I am just curious to see what other people think. I'm always fascinated by your minds.
I would like to think that as long as you are not stepping on everyone to get what you want and then hoarding all the good feelings searching for that goal alone, you are still in a healthy frame of mind. Then again, in the last couple of years, I've finally come to realize that the term "healthy" is objective. Maybe even the former sentence is still too broad an idea...
Is money considered greed? We all want something we can't have or can't afford, but would us finding a way to get what we want because it would satisfy that overt need inside our own heads be beyond that "healthy" line?
Working hard and setting goals is healthy, but if the goal is to be rich and famous, is it still under the same category? This isn't self-reflection really. I would like to make enough money to pay my bills and have some left over to save and spend. I don't think that's too much to ask. I am just curious to see what other people think. I'm always fascinated by your minds.
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Date: 2005-07-27 10:16 pm (UTC)Puritanical Protestant background, eh? Me, too.
What could possibly make being rich and famous a bad goal? Doing so by hurting others. Other than that, truly, what is the problem? I think the more important challenge is to be true to ourselves. IMHO, if your truth is a need for wealth and fame, you should pursue that.
I have money issues. I really do. I'm embarrassed to try and make money. It seems wrong and dirty somehow. I wish I could have written the "I'm embarrased" sentence in past tense, but it's still true, even after running a store for 2 and a half years. Perhaps that's one of the reasons our store didn't make it. lol
We must make money to live and have the things we need. We can make enough money to provide for entertainment, our retirement, and children's education. If we're really 'ambitious', we could make enough to be flamboyantly wasteful, and/or extraordinarily generous. The world needs both the 'wasteful' (building power racing boats makes for good jobs) and the generous (The Kinsey Institute can always use more grant money).
My odd $0.02.