Excess!!!!!!
As human beings we should consider the idea of excess and greed. How too much ‘want’ can destroy a person. I just watch the movie, “The Wolf of Wall Street”. Films like this seem to be the trend. They reflect the times in which we live. I notice human beings have a tendency (and its a good one) to step back and take a look at themselves, see what's wrong, and try to fix it. One problem, however, that we never seem to fix: human beings are, by nature, hungry creatures, whether we want to admit it or not. We want more food, more liquor, more drugs more sex, a better job, a prettier wife; never happy or satisfied with what we have.
The idea "I can do better" - why do we say it? Do we say it to ourselves for ourselves? Or do we just want to show off? Keeping up with the Jones’ has never really been a cultural phenomenon, but a fact since the beginning of time. Giving in to any one of these excesses obviously has consequences. No matter how many times we experience it ourselves, or see it we never seem to grasp the lesson. Life gives us the options and its up to us to make the choices. Maybe those options presented to us are there for some other purpose.
Secondly, why has no one ever figured out a way to have those options without the excess? Why can we not easily just say, “Stop! I'm happy!”. We are people who can think, we are not animals. Maybe the idea of excess and greed will stay around until someone figures out how not to fall prey to it; that we
can have our cake and eat it too. Time and again, life lets us see what can happen to us when we give in to our own hunger: Whitney Houston, Michael Jackson, Amy Winehouse, and more recently; Phillip Seymour Hoffman. They lived lives of excess to some degree. Justin Bieber - the perfect victim or maybe he's a victim of an unattentive parent. I don't know. Already, most of us are thinking, “this kid’s going down”.
Maybe too much success too soon is a drug in and of itself. Maybe its a message telling us we should not have too much…. that there is a point. Maybe those people went past that point and they are a lesson we should learn? I’d like to believe you can live with the Jones’s that have that pool in their backyard, without feeling resentment or wanting to best them by getting a bigger pool. Even highly educated, people fall prey to their own greed. Remember Elliot Spitzer, governor of New York? If he had stayed on track, He may have become president, instead, he fell prey to a prostitution ring and we watched him squirm on TV losing his edge with the American people.
Now we have Barack Obama. Ironically in the world of politics excess and greed seem to take center stage. President Obama is now being viewed on CNN, Fox News as being a man who will not listen. He is intent on having his own way. Even at the cost of the American people’s needs, he did says "I Have a Pen, and I have Phone" Most of us, who don't think much of the political world to begin with, watch all politicians slowly rise and quickly fall. We do it as if it’s entertainment. We can't wait to see these people fall prey to their own excess, and save every video of "I'm sorry” and upload it on YouTube for the world to see, just because its better entertainment than ‘Duck Dynasty’ and ‘Toddler's and Tiaras’. We watch those videos over and over again and laugh. We wait for the next tragedy to be entertainment until they become Phillip Seymour Hoffman, Michael jackson, Amy Winehouse and Whitney Houston.
I'll lose all hope for humanity if we laugh when that happens. So far I'm glad we don't. I just wish we would learn our lesson. In The meantime, life goes on. There are more stories to tell; perhaps lessons
we will never learn. Maybe I will never learn! Maybe we should check YouTube and watch Justin Bieber and Laugh! Right now, when we watch the news, we see pictures of Bieber smiling as he is arrested for drunkenness, speeding, vandalism and who knows what? One things for certain: this kid’s got too much!
Right now I’m laughing! I’m sure some of you are too! But will we be laughing later? Or are we going to reinvent the system? Or at least say, “Stop! I'm Happy!”
Right now I look out the window and see a beautiful sunset and a red Ferrari parked outside the neighbor's house, I like the Ferrari!!!!! Excess! Always Excess!
The good news is I don't own a Ferrari! But I want one! Dont you!!?? Isn’t Time to watch youtube again?
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