How much do you really need?

Not long ago if someone would have asked me, what is that you want more and more, I wouldn't have blinked an eyelid before replying more money, preferably in cash. And then I thought isnt that the top most thing on everyones mind. Judging me wouldn't be right then, would it?

Money buys all, not all but most of the things we want (or we think we want) in life. It all starts with an innocent thought of getting a good degree so you can get a decent job. However it never stops, does it? You want this and then that and then a little bit of more too.

Life is good and you feel happy. Then you look around and you see there are some people who are earning more and you feel like you are not doing enough. You forget to look at people who are earning less than you. But that's convenient for us and so we move on. Ready to do more, to slog harder to reach that so called `place' where the others are.

Can we really reach that `place' where the others are? As that will always be above our place only the people in that place will keep changing. No matter where you are in life, there will always be someone who will be earning more than you, looking more beautiful than you, more ambitious, more greedy, more cheerful the list never ends. The sooner you know the better. The unusual thing will be to look for that person who earns less than you and is still happier than you. We seldom try to look out for such people. Afraid of losing the track of the race ...the rat race trap!

Being ambitious is not bad. But being greedy most certainly is. And there's a thin, blurred line between them which you have to constantly maintain. If we understand that we have come here empty handed and will leave in that fashion too, chances are we would realise we have more than we need.

Where to stop depends and varies from individual to individual. Everyone defines sufficient in a different way. I guess when we have the means to reach an end and an opportunity to use the means we will always want to execute it. And that is what most people do. We have become too weak to resist our temptations.

We have come in this world with absolutely nothing and will be leaving this world in exactly the same manner. After all how much land does a man need - two freaking yards!

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