It never stops

20th of December, 2021.

It's a brand new day and week, most importantly, it's Christmas week. Christmas is in five days and I am excited. I'm definitely sure we all are. Apart from the fact that I had a very cold weekend, my weekend was very fine. The most beautiful thing was that the football club I support, Arsenal FC, was excellent during the week, while a particular blue team kept messing around 😂.

From the origin of creation of humans, humans are beings, in such a way that they just possess some certain qualities or attributes such as greediness, covetousness, love and many more. But out of all the attributes, one if most found in humans is unsatisfaction, the spirit of wanting more and more. 

This attribute is so rampant amongst humans, as it's not only found in adults but also in children, teenagers and youth. Wanting more of everything and being never satisfied is not a bad attribute, this is expected in all human beings. It's a desire that longs for more, not settling for less or little. This can also be in the form of covetousness too or as a result of just the natural spirit in humans. We live in an environment that is never satisfied and always desires more, more money, more clothing. In fact, in many ways, the pursuit of more defines our entire society. More power, more wealth, more prestige, more reputation, more sex, more, more and more.

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But there is a problem with the lifestyle choice of desiring more. When we constantly desire more, we are never satisfied. Because no matter how much we accumulate or achieve, more always exists. Mere looking or examining, it is unquenchable. No matter how much money is in your bank account, there can always be more. No matter how big your house, there can always be more. No matter how many likes on your Instagram post or views on your Tik-Tok videos, there can always be more.

When more is the goal, we never fully arrive. It is insatiable. And that is the problem with always wanting more. Happiness and contentment will always elude us if we are looking for it in the acquisition of more. I suppose, if it was commonplace to see an end to this pursuit, that would be a different story. If human beings eventually arrived at a level of more, and suddenly became content, we could all strive to reach that level. But that is not the example surrounding us. Quite the opposite in fact. Most everybody who acquires more, only continues to pursue it.  

We see it in the lives of individuals who amass great fortunes but are not satisfied. We see it in the world’s largest corporations who continue to pursue greater and greater market share and profits. We see it in those who acquire power and then work relentlessly to keep it and expand upon it.

This act of wanting more starts from childhood to adulthood. There were times where all a child would ask for a chocolate or a certain amount of money, then it gradually changed to bigger things. Also as adults there was a time all you wanted was just $1 then it changes to $50 then you think you can even have more then houses, more and better shoes, clothes, phones, then cars and many things you can ever imagine or think of and so on, it never stops.

There is a saying that says that "the crying of a baby changes as he/she grows". From this saying, it says it all that as humans, the more we group, the more we get exposed to things or progresses, our desires, needs or wants also changes. This however does not stop until death comes.

In fact, any person that doesn't strive for more is seen as being stagnant, not making any progress and such person existence should be questioned or maybe such a person needs help.

Thank you for reading!