The Chase Contradiction

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”,

a wealthy man learns that it’s not always the things that we can see that are important in life. “He felt that his little daughters love was worth a thousand times more than he had gained by the golden touch.” (Hawthorne, pg 452). The character in the story thought that gold was more valuable than anything else ever could be. In an unfortunate way he realized that there were things more precious to him than gold. We can become so addicted to the things of this world that we forget what’s really important in the end.
I read in the Bible once that it’s harder for the rich to enter heaven. Matthew 19:24 says, “Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of God.” Having more than you need can be fatal. You lose sight of what’s truly meaningful. It actually does change the person that you are. It’s better to focus on emotions and things like that you can take when you go. We can become so addicted to our possessions of this world that we forget what’s really important in the end.
Deciphering whether you need something or just want it can be difficult. No one is saying it’s easy. It’s a huge problem that pretty much everyone has dealt with at some point in their life. People think there is no way to know what you actually need. I disagree with that though. The Bible tells us everything we need in this life if we’re willing to listen. The more greedy you become, the more you lose the essence of who you really are. It is very difficult to stay humble when you considered superior. Everyone thinks that being prosperous is such a good thing and something to envy people for. When actually it should be the other way around. The less you have, the more rich your heart is likely to be. It’s better to live in peace than to be constantly wanting more and end up with nothing. We can become so addicted to our possessions of this world that we forget what’s really important in the end.