Greed

If you give someone a book, they want the whole library. Give someone a cow, they want the whole farm. Greed is often what we get caught up in life. In this day and age, everybody seems to want more. In reality, why are we at college? By going through college we hope to obtain a well-to-do job and be profitable because we as humans are greedy, we want more and the only way to do this is to have money. In my opinion, society wouldn't be more successful if people did not have greed. Technology is improving because the people want more, so we invent more. The farmer thought he was better, thought he could do the unexpected, thought he could get more for his money, but in the end he paid for his greed.

In the end, the man who lives the simple life has it made. A person does not need anything in life except happiness. If I knew what I wanted in life, I probably wouldn't be going to college. However, women support themselves now a days. The work of college makes me want to just give up. Sometimes I would think, how easy would it be to go to cosmetology school and start a business like my mother did, in just one year. In the end, I don't think I'd be truly happy carrying out that job for the rest of my life, so I'm here, Juniata College.

Everyone gets away from the material things sometimes. I know it's not practical to have about eight pairs of running shoes, but it's what I like. And therefore, it's what I'm going to wear. It's not materialistic to have cathedral ceilings in our houses, fake fire places, or two dining tables but we do. We don't need zero degree turn lawnmowers or bikes to play around in. Our closets are the exact opposites of materialistic human beings. If we lived in a materialistic world, a lot of possessions would not exist.