Addiction and greed: how are they related?

The phenomena of greed and addiction have a lot to do with each other in their psychological impact.

We think, and this is a question that human beings have always asked themselves, that human beings are naturally greedy.

It is enough to take a look around us and see that, the more we have, the more we wantMoney, power, prestige... It is something that can be appreciated, simply by paying a little attention to our surroundings.

This is something worth analyzing, since the consequences of this behavior are not at all positive for the people who suffer from it. What's more, when someone feels this emptiness, that something is missing in his life, he tends to want to feel better by accumulating objects.. They want to have more of everything: clothes, money... and, of course, why not turn to drugs, if everyone says they make you forget your problems and feel better?

The downside, to put it mildly, is that when we resort to this type of palliative, it is usually a temporary solution. When the effect of the purchase or consumption wears off, we go back to the way we were before, and we want to feel good again.and we want to feel good again, so again we fall in the object of addiction to avoid the emptiness of which we spoke before.

Greed, a great ally for addiction.

Unfortunately, we live in a world in which, in the vast majority of times, people are measured by what they have. Not by their intelligence, not by their human qualities, but by what is material.. It is the one who has more money or more power that must be followed. And this is addictive, wanting more and more leads us to a point where it is difficult to satiate our desire to have more.

This, on the other hand, makes us think about the reality of the halo effect. the reality of the halo effect. If you do not know it, we will tell you that it is more frequent than you might think, and that it consists of attributing certain characteristics to two people based on a single one that is the one that catches our attention. For example, if you have a good car, you are too smart to have earned the money to buy it.

However, this has a major drawback. The fact that in making these value judgments, in the end, we can end up believing them.. What we mean is that those false beliefs and those misconceptions end up being part of us, and we end up thinking that, to be good, to have any value, we need to have much more than what we have.

This thought derives in that we only think about getting more than what we have, but not only to feel better, but also to show how good we are to others. It is the typical "so much you have, so much you are worth".

So much you have, so much you are worth?

We tend to want more, we are ambitious and want to "prosper"; but in reality, the saying "he who has the most is not richer, but he who needs the least" is a great truth. There are religions such as Buddhism that reject desire and greed, because, according to its practitioners, it is very difficult to satisfy this craving, it is very difficult to satisfy this craving to possess things.And, if we talk about the needs that we create for ourselves, it is much worse, because if we cannot satisfy them, we suffer unnecessarily.

In a certain way, if we have more things we can have a worse time, since we will cling more intensely to the material, and in case we lose something, we will suffer more.If we lose something, we will have a much greater discomfort.

All this makes us ask ourselves something: if as human beings we cover the basic and inherent needs (namely, food and affection), what is happening in us that we are not satisfied and are looking for more?

Is it possible that this is because of something we have learned throughout our lives? Maybe it is because we have always been told not to settle? That the basics are not enough? Maybe...

Why not look at it differently?

You already know this, but we still insist. When you seek to have more always, at all times, it can make you create in yourself an inner emptiness that is difficult to fill.. That emptiness, that feeling that you are incomplete and that something is missing can make you look for what you don't have in the wrong places, for example, drugs.

It is important that you know how to value what you have, which is a lot. If you have people around you who care about you and support you, you have a lot. Friends are also important, and you should know how to value them, as well as those little moments that seem insignificant, but in reality are not.

Remember at all times that you are as valuable and as important as the person next to you, and that it is you that makes you who you are, not the car you drive or the brand of clothes you have. You are you.

Don't let yourself get addicted to something as unimportant as material things.