2024 Author: Harry Day | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 15:43
On the one hand, I, like everyone else, have been brought up with the idea that greed is bad.
Even vile.
Sometimes disgusting.
Indeed, you experience some kind of disgusting feeling when you see another person next to you "huddling", making speeches, and being stingy.
You feel irritation, contempt and even anger towards him.
Greed is "officially" recognized as one of the seven deadly sins.
Greed, greed, squalling, pettiness, stinginess, hoarding …
There are so many different synonyms in the Russian language for this negative property of the human character!
On the other hand … Which of the people is completely unfamiliar with that “toad” itself? Can anyone, even with himself alone, honestly say to himself: "I never, no one, and nothing was sorry for me."
As the saying goes: "He who is without sin, let him be the first to throw a stone at me …".
When you call another greedy, “with a light heart” you feel right.
And when you yourself are greedy, you feel ashamed.
But is this the unambiguously shameful “stigma” of greed?
After all, greedy people are not born.
There is always something at the heart of greed, "behind" it, whether it be isolated manifestations or a pathological personality trait.
The easiest way is to call someone a miser.
It is much more difficult to try to penetrate and understand.
In the case of pathology, greed is one of the external, "superficial" manifestations of deeper, I would say tragic, mental processes in a person's personality.
If you learn more about these processes, try at least to imagine yourself in the place of the other, what it feels like for him with all this, then, probably, it will be possible to feel something other than contempt himself.
For example, sympathy or pity.
If the manifestations of greed are "fragmentary", or refer to some specific topics, questions, spheres of life, then, I think, behind greed there is always a hidden, but quite humanly understandable motive.
Someone in childhood always lacked something important specifically for him. And I always wanted it badly.
Someone is experiencing severe anxiety, or even fear, because of the threat of "lack" of something that provides him with stability, stability, calmness.
Someone appreciates himself in the main (or only) through the "presence" of something important to him in excess, asserts himself in this way.
And someone simply does not know himself very well, his true needs, genuine interests, does not see them clearly, strives for something that is not really valuable to him, does not need, and unconsciously sabotages, including through "tight-fistedness" …
In fact, it seems to me that there can be a lot of options for "greedy" situations and their motives.
For me, it is important to separate the attitude towards a person as a person as a whole from his actions, which look like greedy, greedy.
Although my own violent emotions can overshadow my mind, calling for unequivocal condemnation (of another person or myself).
A person in general, by and large, is always more difficult than unambiguous and categorical assessments.
It seems to me.:)
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