If one is to look back at the history of the entire world, one would find that mostly, us, "humans", have wanted nothing more than to "acquire and keep acquiring" one thing after the other. This notion, of acquiring, can directly be related to "never having enough", I think!
Why? Why is it that we want to keep acquiring or keep thinking that we don't have enough? What are we going to do with everything we acquire. Eventually we all die and sometimes even way before we die we loose interest in the thing that we acquired, for instance, a shirt bought 1 year ago is not worn as often as the one that was bought 2 months ago.
A personal example of not having enough is when I used to get $70 per week from my guardian when I first moved to Australia. This used to suffice my needs of travel, entertainment and food while I was studying at University. Then I started working part-time and suddenly I was budgeting $100 per week plus about $200 per month on my credit card. I would find that $600 per month was not enough now that I was working. One can blame inflation or what have you, but is that all? Or is it also true that with the increase in income the standard of living has automatically gone up too. With having more at hand I am compelled to buy and acquire more materialistic things and keep finding myself with the notion of never having enough.
There are bigger things to this topic than just me, my shirt(s) that I don't wear and me never finding it enough.
History has shown us how People In Power have manipulated, cheated and twisted the facts to make us believe things that they want to acquire.
May that be a King wanting to rule another country or a Unique Leader wanting to acquire Oil fields in the name of War on Terror.
July 11, 2006, Mumbai Train Bomb Blasts, were also linked to the unresolved Jammu & Kashmir issue that has been going on since the partition of India and Pakistan in 1947. If, and only if this is the case, then once again we can see the loss of innocent lives because of the few that are adamant on holding their ground. I am not saying either one, India or Pakistan, is right or wrong to hold their ground, however, what I am saying is that after 50 odd years why has there not been an amicable resolution? I know, it is very easy for me to sit here in cool and cozy Melbourne, Australia and talk about why it is yet to be resolved after a good 50 odd years but still I write cause I wonder. Wonder about what has happened and the loss of lives for no apparent reason all around the world just cause some people want to get hold off or control certain things...
It is this need of acquiring that I see as being the doom of mankind more than the O-Zone layer or attack of aliens on the blue planet... The more we want to acquire the more we will find ways of doing it and the more, I forsee, being killed in the process.
It's #*&^%$ to say the least!
Quote:
“One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.”
- Stendhal, One of the most original and complex French writers of the 19th century.
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