There is a great need of honor in the world, this need comes from the sensational hunger for truth that rests in the hearts of all who are alive. Without such hunger we would all surely die, for with this need and hunger we try and better ourselves through books and learning. We try and get along with those who live among, and around, ourselves, our friends, and our family. We try our best to work with these people and through our need for honor, and our hunger for truth, we can do this and also manage to remain civil despite the differences that rest in our heart, mind, body, and spirit.
It is through those differences that each one of us is reminded that even though we are different, there is a core truth to us all-we are not alone. We have the ability to exist privately, but we do have others aroud us. There are those who would argue otherwise, but each of us know of, or know someone personally, and as such from the day we are born to the day we die we are never truly by ourselves. It is through this human contact that we find our sensational hunger for the truth grow, and it is through that search for the truth we find our great need for honor growing as well.
We find that through this search for human contact that we establish the barriers of our own mind, we setup said barriers as a way to enforce our belief system. For example, one such barrier is law. We keep these laws as a way to make sure people follow the way the lawmakers set forth, and as citizens we follow the laws so as to not feel different or as outsiders. The truth is that most of the laws are needed, for without law we would find ourselves in a place of anarchy. Man was not meant to be alone, but rather with others of his own kind. We desire human contact, and we desire the contact of our peers, our equals, and those above and below us.
There is a reason that through the years, each of us have either lived through, seen, or heard about times that people have had people serving below (or above) themselves. This reason is very simple, we desire to feel better about ourselves. We try and find civil ways to do this, but the truth is that as humans we will do whatever it takes to be on top. Why? Greed. What is greed? Greed is the desire to better yourself by gaining other things, which normally come from other people (eg: Someone’s wife, someone’s pet, someone’s money, etc).
The question I propose is this: Why do we need to be greedy? What is it that attracts us to greed? I already established that there is a great need of honor, and since that is true why is there also greed? If we truly hunger for truth then why do we lie, and why do we hide behind the laws to protect the guilty? What is it about greed that attracts us so? It is power. Power attracts us, and you will always find a promise of power lying with greed. Do people ever truly people powerful by dealing with greed? Yes, they do.
The truth is people can become quite powerful when dealing with greed, they can find themselves in bed with many evils of this world. We have all seen, whether on television, on the computer, or even in real life, what happens when greed issues power to a person. We are not perfect; this is true. We are, however, capable of learning from mistakes–whether ours or another, and as such we can see what has happened around us, or before us, and learn from it to change the way our lives are going.
I urge everyone reading this to think about how your life has gone, and to find a way to change the path which you are on. You need to think about everything you have done, everything you will do, and everything you plan to do. You need to find out why you behave this way, and how you plan on changing it. You can figure it out, and you can become even more alive.
Need honor, hunger for truth, and most of all live — LIVE LIFE. Live your life like tomorrow you will die, because life is unsure and not perfect. There is no honor in greed, and no truth of it either. Be freed in the honor and truth of life, and of these words, and most of all be free in the knowledge that your life is special. You are wanted, and needed, in this world. You are of honor and of truth, and so please begin behaving of that way — find the honor and truth and stick with it. You do not need to go back to the way you were-evolve into something better. You can, and I hope will, become a butterfly instead of a caterpillar. You are free, act like it-believe it, LIVE IT, and LOVE IT.
