From Hunger to Greed - Essay Example

Having excess optimism and over ambitions in life usually makes someone to try to achieve more than one can handle at that moment and this habit at times make someone to lose his or her target. The rock song you cannot always get what you want gives a good example of a person wanted a woman but he did not succeed to woe her although he ended up getting someone else. The song ‘you can’t always get what you want’ was about the Mick encounter in life when he was drinking with a group of his friends in a pub in 1960’s.

He saw a beautiful woman and he immediately fell for her and he just pondered on how he could get her because the woman had a relationship with another man. After realizing that, the woman was someone else’s Mick decided to woo her away from the other man and luckily he succeeded in getting her. It lingered in Mick’s minds that he wanted the woman when she was with another male and after getting her, he ended up in jail. Mick finally thought that he did not get what he wanted and blamed the girl for the failure but he ended up in getting what he needed and the experience made him realize where his life was heading (Song Meaning.com). During my school life, I had purposed myself to focus on education in order to achieve a great life in the future.

When I finished my education, my point of focus shifted to the women and one time when I was taking a walk with my friends I spotted a girl whom I thought could be the woman of my dreams. I gathered enough courage and I approached the girl and luckily I exchanged contacts with her and I thought that all was going well. We dated for a while and to my surprise, the woman loved another man and the two were already having an affair. I decided to ask about our relationship but she really broke my heart when she told me that she did not have any feelings for me and I had to respect her decision.

I quitted dating her and I accepted the defeat, moved on with my life, and settled on another girl where I succeeded in wooing her although she was not my target. Although I did not get the woman I wanted in life, I ended up getting another woman because I needed one in life even if she was not my target. Many people in life never get satisfied with their achievements even if everything seems to be flow good with them. No matter how great the things appear to them, people find them not enough for them because of over ambitions.

The main reason is that, most of them are after fame and this leads them to greed in life. The competition of wealth in the current world has led to lack of satisfaction since everybody wants to be a hero in his or her society. This kind of competition has led to the current trends of criminal activities in order for the people to amass wealth as much as possible within a small period. This character of greed and selfishness creates a rift between the people in the society. There are many literature materials that have explained the character of greed, how and why it arises in the societies.

Thomas Aquinas wrote an article that stated that, greed is a sin against God because most people are not satisfied with what God has provided to them and as a result, they end up forsaking God for earthly materials. According to Keltner and Piff (Para. 2-4), greed inspires people to carry out several criminal actions such as robbery with violence, manipulating the authority to evade tax and hoarding of goods among