Need or Greed

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Date Submitted: 04/05/2012 02:32 AM

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Is it- a need or greed?

Every one of us is so busy in one way or another. Someone is busy in working, someone in writing, someone in analysing and so on. Again the busyness of life has subdivided itself into different types with our help since we are so good at adopting these different kinds of busyness. We can be very busy, a little, sometimes really busy and sometimes just pretentiously busy.

Now are we so fond of being busy all the time?

It’s rarely so. The whole idea behind keeping ourselves busy arises from our own personal desires.

Different kinds of need in different aspects of life, when summed up together form ‘the pool of needs of entire human race’, comprising of every single need of every one of us. The needs of human race multiplied since the life of human race had taken its course.

These needs of ours have encrypted into busyness. The needier we are the busier we get cause we thrive to catch up to those needs of ours. Sometimes busy in thinking and sometimes busy doing & sometimes busy in finding out another need. So the never ending needs of ours make us a path to never ending busyness. We always think we have the saddle and we are the ones who are straddling smoothly. But then our needs always hover over our head and lure us with their mischievous offering and bind us into following the path blindly, leaving behind our own efficacy to judge. With time our needs multiply, ensuring their empowerment even more over our intellectuals, polluting our ability to a clear judgement. As a result ‘we’ become their puppets and ‘our needs’ become our puppeteers.

But we can’t stop reaching out for our desires or needs. By doing so, we will lose the attributes of our lives and we won’t be able to sustain. Without need for something we will not strive to success. So we can’t nullify our needs but the determination of a real need is what should be taken into account. We should not let our need to keep us so busy that we lose sense of realizing the...