let’s be real

I’m a very greedy person.

I don’t feel bad about it because there's no reason to do so.

Chances are you're greedy, too.

Don’t think that I can’t see you shaking your head, acting all defensive and whatnot. I know that you’re trying to justify your lack of greediness by thinking of all the times you’ve donated to charity, or the times you’ve struggled to balance your shopping bags on one arm, whilst with your other arm struggling to unzip your purse to give some spare change to that homeless dude always sat outside the shopping centre.

The definition of greed is the selfish desire for something, e.g. wealth, power, or food. You would be lying if you said that you’ve never stopped to think, shit, my life would be really amazing if I had loads of money to blow on whatever I wanted.

That’s what it all comes down to; want.

Sure, you may want to be rich so that you have the means to donate generously to charities, but that's to make yourself feel good. Every apparently selfless act has some aspect of selfishness behind it. No one needs wealth, no one needs power and although I’ve always tried to justify having that slice of chocolate cake by stating that I need it, that’s certainly not true. But let’s not deceive ourselves, greed is a brilliant thing.

The reason that we accomplish anything is because we are fuelled by our greed.