The Seven Deadly Sins Of Greed

One of the seven deadly sins is Greed, meaning “intense and selfish desire for something, especially wealth, power, or food.” However, greed isn’t always a bad thing, it helps make day to day decisions. Some people are greedy just because they aren’t satisfied with what they already have. Greed is driven by sense of withdrawal, a need for something that isn’t there. “That one thing could be money, power, sex, food, attention, knowledge”(barry) as said in the article titled The Michael teachings. Greed can apply to just about anything in life.
People are greedy and they don’t realize they are in what they do. “Most greedy people like to show off their money in such ways as their cars, clothes, houses, ect.”(sonnenberg) But it’s not always a bad thing, not all successful people are greedy. Many successful people give a portion of their wealth or time to give back to their community. But to some, giving back is just a way to get a tax break, not doing it out of the good of their hearts. It’s also true that you don’t have to be particularly wealthy in order to be able to give. Many give to churches, or charities out of the goodness of their hearts or their morals they live by.

If there was no greed in the world there would be nothing.” (jones) If you came second in a competition you would believe it was not good enough and strive to come first in the next attempt. If there was no such thing as greed, there wouldn’t be any competition at all. No one would want to be the best; no one would have anything to drive them towards the top. With greed, you drive yourself to gain what you want and to be above others and work hard to benefit you and your family.” Greed can understandably be considered evil or a sin, but it is human nature and it is life” Any decision we make can be off greed. As humans, we want more for