My Story Page 60: Greed

If fear is tails, greed is heads.

They are the two sides of the same counterfeit coin.

Avarice simply means desirous of getting a thing - something.

Why desirous?

What if I do not get it?

I fear that situation. I do not like not getting it.

We dislike what we fear.

We like what we desire.

Desire itself is greed.

So the crisscross of our fears and avarices gets woven onto the lit surface as well as in the deep dark corners of our mind imparting to us a complex array of all the emotions with which we live all our life from birth till death.

All avarices have their conjugate fears as the opposite side of the counterfeit coin that mind is.

Vice versa every fear has its conjugate avarice as well.

If I fear a thing, I desire it not to be there. I desire whether I am hopeful or I am not.

If I am, I am a positive thinker.

If I am not, I am a negative thinker.

Either way, fear and desire are common to my mental reality.

Hope is the mask that hides our fear behind it.

Fear turns unconscious.

So does the associated greed!

Behind a positive thought, there lie all our unconscious fears and avarices.

Same way behind a negative thought, there again lie all our unconscious fears and avarices.

So it is thought that is culprit in essence and not the positive or negative of it!

We live with our unconscious fears and greed all through our life, which we do not know what they are, since they are not conscious to our awareness.

Our awareness lies half awake - half asleep, all the time fearing and desiring this, or that, or else something else!

Life goes chaotic.

If facing the unconscious fear eye to eye for minimum threshold duration of time can get us permanent rid of it, it is quite probable that facing the unconscious greed eye to eye does the same to our psyche.

So when we design our fear-facing device, we can also plan making a greed-facing device for us too.

There does not seem to be any third possibility of any kind around the deep dark corners of our mind possible; since fear-greed pair is what the root is, the rest all simply being the branches and the leaves only.

We need analyzing it more extensively by going deeper into it and coming with an intensive innovation out of it.