Journal #14

14. Please describe your reactions/ideas to the following quote: "He does not possess wealth, it possesses him."

We have all heard that man obsesses over the sense of power. Most of the time power is symbolic of wealth and money. When man obsesses over wealth he does not control wealth … wealth controls him. By this I mean that usually too much power tends to get over people’s heads and people begin to change. Sometimes people become dependent of money and think that money/power is everything. Due to so much power people become selfish and greedy and want more and more and more power. All of that power makes them believe they can have everything they want and that everything can go their way because they believe to be all “powerful”. But all power must come to an end. Power cannot get you everything you want you want in life, it is only limited. So much power can also blind you to believe that everyone wants to be your friend an ally when in reality they going for your money/power. Power abstracts your path and it’s up to that person to see how much it affects them.