Needs can be Ended. Greed cannot be Mended

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 Suppose a ten year old kiddo asks his father to buy him a toy car, and he gets that. It's done. It's met. There is no need to bring him another toy car until he has that working well and fine for him. Or if he sees an advertisement with a better car model and sacks his father for that. But let's say his need is met. He got the car, he is happy! 

Now suppose that ten year old kiddo wants toys. Every kind of toy that is available in the market. There is no end to that. He will always be asking his father for more and more toys. After a toy car, he will ask for a remote control plane. Then he might ask for Hot wheels car set, he can also ask for more Power Rangers edition or Marvel's edition or a Ben ten collection. Rings nostalgic bells? Yes I am talking about an era that does not exist anymore. Kids these days are subway surfers and not Pirates of Caribbean. Maybe the Subway Surfers era has ended too. Technology is too fast, too fast to keep pace with.

However. Anyways. Where was I? 

Life is just the same. When you are pouring water, you need to see that the vessel is a cup, a glass, a mega big glass or a well. No matter how much you can provide for, if the requirements are the size of a cup or a glass, you can easily please people. If the requirements the size of a mega glass, then your person is a 'high maintenance', and that's fine too. Don't you love to pamper your loved one?

But, if the vessel you are trying to fill is a well, a big well with a varied set of expectations and a long list of complaints, you might end up in a vacuum whirlpool, and that might be something you fail to keep up swimming with. 

Needs have an end. You can fulfil a person's need of emotional support.
You can support a friend's need who is going through financial instability.
You can provide for the food, shelter and clothing for a social group of people in or under a locality.
You can feed a beggar for a night.
You can give a blanket to the one's shivering in cold.
NEED is something you can fulfil. 
But then comes GREED..

When your son keeps demanding you for more money without a productive accountability, it's going on greed. When the land is being divided among three siblings and the elder brother is constantly trying to close in the shares of the other two, its greed. When you have all the qualities of a good child and your parent is never satisfied with your efforts, that's greed. 

Anything without accountability is greed. 

When your manager wants you to be more productive and everyday compares your skills with other candidates follow up, that is a criteria you cannot fulfil. For instance, you are a content creator. Your minimum work requirement is to create ten illustrative posts mingling the designs and captions every day. Now your capability has exceeded the mark and the manager wants you to create twenty such mind blowing posts, just because you could do fifteen the other day. I know I am going very basic, but I am not giving you a peek into the world of content writing, so focus! The more quantity you provide one day, he will expect two percent more the very next day. And it doesn't stop.

When a mother has full control of her daughter and knows there is nothing she would do wrong. Yet the mother has to dance her ass off on an odd day of their lives and scold the daughter tremendously for just asking to go on a trip with her friends. The girl is not stubborn, she just mentioned about the plan but her mother abuses her to heights. The urge of the mother to exercise control of her daughter's actions, outings, friendly date and grounding at home is her parental need. But her mother's extreme ferociousness to control what her daughter might desire or wish to have or choose to love is a parental greed for control. 

I am sorry for being straight and harsh. But it is what it is. 

You can fulfil the needs of a person which has a quantified version. You can also keep up to your quality of care and romantic presentation. But Greed cannot be fulfilled. It is like pouring water into a well. No matter how much you pour, it will never fill. So the next time you choose to please a heart, check if it has a emotional need or a black hole greed. 

Needs can be ended, can be met, can fulfilled, can be satisfied.

Greed is a rusty hinged territory. No matter how much you do, it will always make a crackling sound. It cannot be mended. It cannot be satisfied.

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