Weekend-Engagement WEEK #166: My Greed

Hello friend hiver and the Weekend Experiences Community I hope you are having a successful weekend.

Once again our friend @galenkp brings us very interesting and thoughtful topics for this weekend. This time I have gone for the topic: Have you ever been greedy?

Starting from this question, my answer is a resounding YES, yes I have been ambitious in many aspects of my life, I think that without ambition there is no motivation, no progress because we do not go beyond our limits, there is no self-improvement. To be a person without ambition is to be satisfied with what you have without aspiring for more.

"Do you want to be rich? Then do not strive to increase your goods, but to decrease your greed". (Epicuro de Samos).

Certainly you have to leave the excess, because everything in excess is bad and a 100% ambitious personality is harmful to mental health.

I will talk about my ambition in the economic context leaving out my ambition for a university degree and personal development. Since I turned 18 years old I have always imagined having a big house, with a luxurious car, I dreamed and still dream of traveling a lot around the world, but that requires money.

Greed has led me to plan a goal that really was to buy a car, I saw many people my age with their own cars and I was envious of the good, because I wanted to be like them. That's why I organized myself in college and started doing mini businesses, buying some things like (clothes, makeup, electronic equipment) and selling them. It wasn't easy, because "ant expenses" and vanities always get in the way.

When I met @yoselyncampos together we started a small business, with perseverance we were growing and we were doing well, so much so that I started to love money more than the study, other parallel plans that generated me income arose. The greed of wanting to earn more and more made me deviate for a moment from my university studies, I really wanted the car. Thanks to my family's advice I was able to organize my priorities.

The end was happy, we did not give up with our business, to achieve the goal we lasted a little longer than expected, but we made it, I was able to buy my first car, with my job and thanks to the greed of wanting to get it, I could also finish my college career without problems.

Having greed and aspirations is not bad, but it becomes pathological or sick, when you want to get much more regardless of paying with your physical, mental or family health.

"There is no man who, if he can earn the maximum, will be satisfied with the minimum". Friedrich Schiller

If you made it this far, I hope you enjoyed this post as much as I did sharing it with you.

All personal photos were taken with my Samsung A20s phone. Main photo separators edited in Canva.

Greetings!