"The world has enough for everyone's needs, but not everyone's greed." –— Mahatma Gandhi
This morning I wanted to write about greed and needs. About the feeling that I have of living in a society driven by greed. One in which the goal of everyone is to create wealth for themselves. So we collect and accumulate resources, material and immaterial. And this race to collect, we see others as competitors in a zero-sum game. Relationships are transactional; what do I get in exchange for what I can give? We measure the value of people on what they have.
What would change if we focus on everyone needs?
While I was writing all these things, a question emerge and punched me in the guts.
What about me? Am I any different? Or am I just a hypocrite?
I don't have much, so maybe I'm writing these things out of envy.
What would I do if I were rich? Would I really be different?
I don't have an answer, but these questions and doubts remind me how easy it is to judge the world.
They remind me that I have my inner work to do first.
And that the only way I can contribute to the creation of a different society is through living myself by different principles.