They will never notice... so why?

The David Alliance

 

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John D. Rockefeller, the founder of the Standard Oil Company, the first billionaire of the United States of America and once the richest man on Earth was asked by a reporter, “How much money is enough?” He calmly replied, “Just a little bit more”

 

 

Kurt Vonnegut Jr. who wrote Cats cradle (I loved reading Vonnegut and  and other books the concept of ice 9 was mind blowing)… any way - he was at a party and his friend Joseph Heller was there who also wrote Catch 22.. both widely successful as far as authors go… Vonnegut leaned over to Heller and said Our host, who was a hedge fund manager has made more money in one day then you or I have ever made all together… in which Heller replied… yes, but I have something he will never have… enough.

 

And isn’t that the truth…

I have a question for you… the last 4 really expensive cars you saw… what did the people inside look like?… I bet you can’t remember more than one… why do I ask? Because so much of our lives is thinking if I had this or that or both… it would make me happy and people would be impressed… but the truth is, no one will notice you- they will be too busy thinking I wish I had that it would make me happy… but again the irony is… no one can tell if a new italian sports car or a new house is making you happy. I would again imagine you never looked at a person with a new watch, new car, new house or a loaded bank account and said to yourself “wow you can really tell THAT made him happy.   NOPE you are thinking… wow that would make me happy… but all of us know things don’t make us happy. But Greed says otherwise….

 

there’s a story that goes
There once was a man who was hit by a Beautiful new Mercedes car, but he was not hurt. Even though he was all right he faked being hurt to get some money so that he could by a new Mercedes out of the deal. So he proceeded to lie on the ground fantasizing about “his” new car. As he laid there waiting for someone to come to him another car came along and hit him and he was paralyzed for life.  And this is what  Greed and Covetousness does to us.  Our desire ends up paralyzing us.

 

Matthew 8:36 For what does it profit a man to gain the whole world and forfeit his soul.

Forfeit = GK Punish, suffer loss or damage

NOW THIS IS NOT TALKING ABOUT AFTER A MAN DIES HE FORFIETS HIS SOUL… this is talking about what he does right now ON EARTH. 

if you spend your life running after things, accolades, money, trophies, applause, fame, fortune, attention, sex or whatever… you are punishing and damaging your soul because that is not what it is made for. you sacrifice all that your soul was meant to be, all that your soul was meant experience and all that your soul was meant develop into… but instead you starve it with greed. 

Have you ever seen a kid with the crazy genetics.. 6’4, big boned, fast twitch muscle fibers, sharp mind a true specimen… but he wastes it by letting his appetite get the best of him. he eats incredibly delicious tasty  crap…. so his body is left to develop on sugar and starch… he ends up obese, but worse than that he could have been one of the all time best NFL players of our generation… He starved his soul to feed his desires…

Maybe you are doing the same…

Leo Tolstoy tells the story of the a peasant farmer who was never satisfied… he was given a novel opportunity in that for just 10000 rubles he could buy all the land he could cover in a day. But he had to be back at his starting point before sun set. So he heads out… starting at a brisk pace… mid day his greed gets the best of him he starts try go faster… get more, get ahead… what will his neighbors think of all the land he gets… by late afternoon he is worried he will not make it back in time… that he will not get everything he wants…so he now is running back, forcing himself to push through the exhaustion.. he will get all the land that is coming to him… with just minutes left before the sun sets he makes it back….He immediately collapsed, blood streaming from his mouth. In a few minutes he was dead. Afterwards, his servants dug a grave. It was not much over six feet long and three feet wide. The title of Tolstoy's story was: How Much Land Does a Man Need?