“The wise man does not hoard. The more he helps others, the more he benefits.
Do you know what greed is? Greed is defined as the innate desire to possess and hoard wealth of any kind, just for the sake of having it. It is the urge to get more wealth just to keep it without the intention of sharing it with anyone. Many people suffer from this evil and we could say that it is a disease. Treasuring something is not bad, but not sharing your wealth can make you lose the opportunity to do much good to others. A wise man will always prefer to share and help than to treasure without purpose.
When you think about illness, you imagine someone convalescing in a bed fighting for their life. But diseases exist in all kinds, many are even imperceptible, since it is assumed that if there is no pain or discomfort you are not sick. But let us understand what it means to be sick. Sickness means to suffer from a disturbance in the normal functioning of any part of the same organism.
Now, we’ve called greed a “disease” but does it apply? We’d say so. The reason, is because the behavior of greed is completely abnormal. Here, there is a very strong psychological disturbance that prevents the person from using his wealth only to treasure it as if it were his own life.
We know that in this life we are just passing through, that our immortality does not work here. Our bodies are aging, quality time is rapidly fading away and nothing we achieve materially we will take with us. This is an absolute truth that no one can deny, so how come the misers don’t understand it?
It must be said that they do, only that they live parallel realities created by their own suffering. This is a condition or addiction that leads them not only to be selfish and mean to others, but also to be so to themselves.
If you have a greedy friend, don’t bother with him, don’t judge him, because he’s not even aware of what he’s doing. Think and keep in mind that he is not overdoing it with you but that his mind works like that, and so serious is this, that the same miser may be needing money to cure a disease he suffers from and just not to decompose his treasure, he prefers to endure the evil.
To these people we share this phrase: “The wise man does not hoard. The more he helps others, the more he benefits. If you truly want to treasure something, treasure the love, gratitude, and peace that you will receive when you become accustomed to sharing all your wealth. You know that all this is temporary and that the day you leave this world you will let others who never worked for your wealth benefit.
You enjoy them now that you can, do it before it’s too late. But keep in mind that the happiness of those who possess wealth is not in spending to waste, but in knowing how to spend, and there is no better way to spend than by making happy those who need it.