We all want more...When we start the journey of life, we are anxious before this world of ours, without principles nor goals, like a train on a crazy ride that doesn’t know from which station it took of nor its destination; a train without drivers; a train that doesn’t slow down although it doesn’t know if it will stop by itself or it will derail on a bend in the path. Beyond metaphor, or better said, transforming to reality, we are on this crazy ride, where everyone has to be on the top. It demands from us more and we want more as well.
It is a matter of status
In order to be accepted on the train we have to own certain things, many things, each time more things, things that are valued by those who travel and are equivalent to power, prestige, and wealth. When we read old stories and trade with people of antiquity, we are amused and by the quantity of objects, useless now. Back then these objects had an incalculable value, in order to fulfill some and not others, to turn some to leaders and others to subordinates. Although the objects may vary, the situation is always the same. In order to stand out you have to keep gaining possessions. Therefore, we all want more. We want to have what will make us stand out before the others, which will place us at the height of the demands from those ahead of us.
It is never enough…
The results of this competition are of little importance, since the train continues its indefinite path. Nothing is sufficient, when we reach one goal we have to pass to a new step that is higher. That which seemed as the culmination of our aspirations and the objective of our efforts, amounds to nothing when we achieve it. Then, what we have obtained fades away since there are people in the train that have as much as we do, and much more. Like this, the next step, is to conquer more so we can be compared with those that exceed us.
If we have a house, at once it seems small, sometimes because it is truly small, but in the majority of the cases because we fill it with unnecessary junk or because it is less square meters than the neighbor’s. If we can not buy a bigger house, this is, undoubtedly, lack of “status”.If we work in a modest position, what ever it might be, and we gain enough money in principle to cover our needs, it doesn’t take long to discover that this money is not enough for anything. The margin of inflation that devastates the countries of the world and takes value from our money is another physical and psychological reality: the more we have the more we spend and the more we spend the more we are short of money.Life has offered us the opportunity to find a person worthy of our love. Well, the virtues of this person diminish when we enter the game of comparisons and, save logical exceptions, nothing is more fashionable than to covet the neighbor’s woman -or man – who will stop being desirable as soon as she/he has been obtained and realized that something even more notable can be achieved.Time is not enough, lack of time overwhelms us, and we need more time. We are desperately fighting to get a few hours more in the day, one day off in the week or a week more of vacation in a year. Then what? By obtaining the trophy we reach the sad conclusion that we do not know how to use this free time and we waste it in vain, turning to “entertainments” that bore us and allow us to forget we have time. What is the reason of this insatiable thirst, of this frenzied and without apparent meaning to the race?Although it may sometimes seem that we humans act without thinking, the certain thing is that we do respond to certain Laws of Nature, but by being dazed by ignorance or out of focus because of lack of evolution, we respond to these laws in an instinctive manner, distorted and badly canalized.
Do we really know what we want?
It is known that all living beings follow a Natural law of evolution that is manifested as growth, expansion, opening, elevation and other various characteristics according to cases. We humans are not outside this Law. In the contrary, we have the ability to perceive it, but when we do not perceive it in a clear way we act impulsively, growing only where our usual field of action is. If we would get of the train and walk, if we could pick up our true speed, our rhythm, we would encounter our model of growth. We would want more, but of what makes us greater and better. Our efforts would be directed to potentiate what determines our human condition.
To be more or to have more? Material possessions? Yes, proportionately so we can live with comfort. Prestige? Yes, before our own eyes and before the eyes of those we love and share our fundamental ideas. Power? Yes, that of our molded will. Try and find the measure of what is corresponding to us and gives us dignity. Try to be more, before wanting to have more. After all, there are many who had many things, and wasted or lost them in a day.But there are few who hold the key of the inner being, the control over their existence, their emotions, the understanding of pain, the strength to face the tests and wisdom to distinguish who we are, where we are coming from and where we are heading to.We all want more. Yes, but we have to know what we want. We have to promote this marvelous energy of growth. We want to get off the train and walk on foot until we learn how to walk and who and how can bring us in contact with truth. We want more. We want to Know and be Able. * By Delia Steinberg Gusman, International Director of New Acropolis Cultural Association.
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