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Phrase: Much craves more
We’ll start the week with a phrase I heard from my mother multiple times a day, almost every day during my childhood: “David, much craves more.”
I resented it then but understand it perfectly now.
Because I grew up the oldest of five children with four younger sisters, a stay-at-home mom and a dad struggling in an economy with a constant 20-40% unemployment rate, there was never very ‘much,’ but there was a lot of ‘craves more.’
When we crave something, we have a powerful feeling of desire for it.
The way that humans seem to work is that the more we have of something, the more we want of it – much craves more.
Have you ever heard of a billionaire who was content with only one billion?
Would one potato chip be enough to satisfy you?
The more we have, the more we want or much craves more.
My mother rationalized our lack of extras by telling herself and us that if we didn’t have a little of something, we wouldn’t want more of it.
Therefore, if you can’t have enough, it’s better to have none at all.
It wasn’t an effective strategy, though.
We still wanted more, or at least what the other kids had.
Later in life, though, I realized the worth of what I had learned and called it financial literacy.
Through hard work and saving, I graduated from university (twice) debt-free.
Then again, going to university once was not enough, was it?
Oh well, much craves more, no matter how hard we try to fight against it.
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