The Chase Contradiction

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There is a big contradiction between what people think they need and what they want. We think there’s no specific guidelines to tell us which is which. It is all based off our own viewpoint. Getting the 2 confused which has happened to everyone at some point, can lead to countless different kinds of disasters. The question is to do learn from it or run from it? We can become so addicted to our possessions of this world that we forget what’s really important in the end. In the story “The Thrill of the Chase”, the author shows how you can’t take materialistic things with you when you die. “Anyone who dies with over $50 is a failure.” (Goldsmith, pg 474). Objects of this life don’t matter in the end. In another story called “The Golden Touch”,

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