The Dream of “Having Enough:” Worthy… or Just “Pie in the Sky?”

This morning, I found myself thinking about what seems like a bit of a ”natural law” that suggests that no matter what, ”we grow to fill the available space.”

Sounds simple enough on the surface, but it can be extended to mean a lot of different things:

Yes, if we have more room, we may ”grow” our requirements to fill that space.

But so often, when people make more money, for example, their perceived needs suddenly grow to where they still need every cent of the money they are making.

But it goes far beyond just ”being human.” Just look at animal populations in nature: When the food supply is ample, the animal population tends to grow to be representative of how much food is available.

Heck, we even see that with our resident deer herds in our small town, and with the way the does now give birth mostly to twins and increasingly to triplets, because the human population’s well-nurtured gardens provide them with a giant ”salad bar.”

As humans, we often make sweeping statements like ”I’m not GREEDY, I just want ENOUGH to live comfortably and without fear of not making it.”

That sounds noble and reasonable enough… but we are almost inevitably subject to what I tend to call ”creeping elegance,” as a result of which ”living comfortably” becomes an ever-increasing basket of goods, services and comforts.

And so, we end up with these strange situations where someone might have been scraping by, and even through their means perhaps have tripled, they still find themselves in a state of ”scraping by” and lamenting that all they really want is to be able to ”live comfortably.”

I speak somewhat from experience, having lived both as a homeless person, and in relative affluence… although with respect to the latter I was not the actual ”guilty party” to perceive that state as "lacking." However, I did get to witness it, firsthand… and also experienced that my cautionary words about "having plenty" fell entirely on deaf ears.

And so, I find myself wondering whether the whole notion of "having enough" is just a form of wishful thinking that flies in the face of fundamental human genetics... enough just isn't ever... ENOUGH.

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