Greed or Happiness

Introduction
Greed is entirely the desire to possess goods, wealth or objects with the intention to have it for one’s self. It can also be referred as the excessive desire to possess more than one need. Some people consider greed as a nature of the human being although there are others who take greed as a form of satisfying their happiness. Greed sometimes can be harmful and sometimes helpful. The greed to drink more can be harmful while the greed to have more wealth is helpful.
Greed
In life, people struggle to make ends meet in every way. Each person tries to do things in a better way than the other so as to make a profit from when we are young to old age. Parents take their children to school encouraging them that after school they will get good jobs and start earning money to make their lives comfortable
. People in the society do not take greed in a good manner. Greed can be used in school by children when they read and in everything they do in school so as to be better than their classmates (Balot, 2001).  Greed has a positive side because when used correctly it can be a motivation to further and improve oneself. People who have acquired money and are living better lives are considered to be successful. In life, greed can be vastly effective. Greed may be good in particular cases, but on the other hand once it converts to the equivalence, the determination and intent becomes distorted (Balot, 2001).
Most of those people who are considered as greedy are hard on their property. It is always hard for them to give to other or even help because they never want to lose anything; all they think of is acquiring more. It is hard for them to help than it is for them to invest. That greed to make more money, drive them to investments. No matter how much they make, they never feel like it’s enough. Greed and destructiveness always go hand in hand. Those greedy people will do anything to get what they want even if it means destroying other people’s lives so as to get what they need (Gigantès, 2002).
The desire to have more always is the best desire that one can ever have. Aiming to just ok always results to something less than ok and above ok in rare cases. Those people who aim at a less grade in school will always get something that is even less than what their aim is. Those high performers in school always aim at a higher grade than they can even manage. This is a strong desire to have more and can be considered as greed but in a positive mind. Greed is the nature of human being. Always wanting to have more than u had is how human beings are (Worden, 2010).
There would be nothing wrong with those people who earn a small salary and not doing something extraordinary to earn more. The only problem is that when there come an unexpected crisis, these people who earn less will suffer most. This idea being in humans mind will always drive an individual to have that desire to possess more so than in any crisis that may come in future they will not be hit (Worden, 2010). This is greed because one can be comfortable with a small amount and still live a happy life but because it’s the nature of human to possess more, they will never be contented with what they have. The human nature tries to make humans comfortable in whichever the environment they live in. To be comfortable one need not to stop at enough and do something extra to have much more.
Considering the social classes that exist in the communities, one will always want to be the best and to be rated in real social class. These social classes are ranked according to what money one has. So as to be in the rich social class one has to have enough cash. The level of materialistic increases with the increase in greed making it hard for small things to make an individual happy, in a way desire increases the level of happiness (Folbre, 2009). Greed forces an individual to believe that materials are the only things that can make you happy and you cannot live your life to the fullest without them.
Thirst for power is also a major aspect when it comes to greed. Most acts of greed can be observed in the acts of power (Gigantès, 2002).  Everyone would wish to be powerful so as to the one who gives orders to the rest. Most people will seek for power at any cost committing themselves to greed without their knowledge. This mostly begins when an individual is young in school. One will try to be more powerful than the rest of the student by asking for posts like being the class prefect. When the desire for power comes to the young mind, that individual can do anything and at any cost to make sure they get it. This goes on till one feels to be a politician so as to have power over the rest. The greed for power is a dangerous one as; if one lost the seat can do anything to make the one on it to step down (Folbre, 2009).
Another major thing that goes hand in hand with greed is self-centeredness. Self-centered people always put themselves above everyone. They feel like they exist in their world alone. They never recognize anyone apart from themselves. They always take priority over the others and consider the existence of other as unworthy (Gigantès, 2002).  Greed uplifts these individual making them feel better than the rest. They always feel that they should possess anything that they desire. People of this type have no difference with the politicians. They are so ambitious and can do anything at any cost to make them remain at the top. This is their nature, and no one can do anything about it. That is how they are, and one need to learn to live with them in that way. Greed is seen in everything that they do, be it talking or anything else, they always feel above everyone (Worden, 2010).  
Conclusion
Greed is an art of human nature, and that is the way they are. Any human being has got that thing in mind that wealth is the only thing that satisfies them. Wealthy persons will do all it takes to make sure that they remain to be rich; they never care about what it takes to be there. Greed is one thing that runs in their minds. Greed can be good or bad depending on how one uses it. It is how human beings were created and, therefore, no one can change that. Everyone always feels to be better than others, and no one can change that because it is the nature of the human race.

References
Balot, R. K. (2001). Greed and injustice in classical Athens. Princeton, N.J: Princeton University Press.
Folbre, N. (2009). Greed, Lust and Gender: A History of Economic Ideas. OUP Catalogue.
Gigantès, P. (2002). Power & greed. New York: Carroll & Graf.
Worden, S. (2010). Godliness and Greed: Shifting Christian Thought on Profit and Wealth. Lanham: Lexington Books.