Turn Around to Go Forward

It’s all about greed. That’s what got us into this fix in the first place. No, this isn’t a political blog. This is a place I write about us–people and their relationships to each other and the things that occupy us.

A few days ago, Chris Matthews who hosts Hardball on MSNBC put it eloquently. Paraphrasing him, he intimated that since the 1980’s people have changed their sights and began to think less about going to college for a degree in Psych, or, say English, but rather, they looked to business and finance for their answers for personal fulfillment. On top of that came the notion that everyone had to get their MBA if they were going to succeed.

Being successful meant being rich–many wanted to get rich and still do.

Back then I got calls from so many financial advisors who wanted to make me rich too. Now don’t get me wrong, there’s nothing wrong with any of that. What’s wrong was that ego began to drive some people and morals took a back seat with many of them. Greed seemed to become okay. Maybe they didn’t say so, but it did–greed began to become okay with a lot of people.

It only got worse in the 90’s and a billion times worse in this decade. Heck, Bernard Madoff just pleaded guilty and could get up to 150 years for cheating billions of dollars out of his investors. That’s the biggest con job in history. He’s just one of so many we hear about daily.

It’s all about greed. Hard working and responsible people with a moral conscience may have started down the superhighway with pure intentions, but somehow many got carjacked by an alter ego of sorts sitting right there with them, or maybe right in their lap. They were transformed to hard working but irresponsible folks without a moral conscience. They are the ones that botched things up for the rest of us.

In all of us, if we don’t control it, we have insatiable drives. We do, we really so. Just think about your own reaction to external temptations. If we don’t watch it, our ego takes over and we spin out of control. It’s not to late to turn around…sometimes we need to turn around to get to where we want to go.

This entry was posted on Saturday, March 14th, 2009 at 8:54 pm.