"More Please"

‘More Please’ is the title of the autobiography of Dame Edna Everage, a character created and performed by Australian comedian Barry Humphries. He writes that these two words, ‘More please’, were his first intelligible utterance.

He went on to say, ‘I have always wanted more. I never had enough milk or money or socks or sex or holidays or first editions or solitude or gramophone records or free meals or real friends or guiltless pleasure or neckties or applause or unquestioning love. Of course, I have always had more than my share of most of these commodities but it always left me with a vague feeling of unfulfillment: where was the rest?

Greed has many faces, but speaks one language: the language of more. Epicurus noted, “Nothing is enough for the man to whom" enough is too little.”. In the name of pleasure and relaxation people try alcohol, cigars, usage of substance, finding intimate pleasures in all wrong places. People can become pleasure addicts – always seeking the next fix. But these experiences of pleasure come and go. The wrong sources of finding MORE of any kind can only lead to acts that are detrimental to oneself and others as time passes.

Let us not confuse pleasure with contentment and joy, nor try replacing the same. ‘Contentment’ is a longer term – being satisfied with your life, your home, your job and your relationships. But there is another kind of happiness that we call ‘Joy’. It is not a fleeting emotion, but a deep way of being – a state of mind that is available to everybody. It is not found in things, but in a Person.

Seeking pleasure for ourselves will always leave us with ‘a vague feeling of unfulfillment’. If you notice, it is mostly the spiritual vacuum that we try to replace with more stuff and wrong pleasures. Note, your quest for MORE can only end when you find God the savior. The peace  of God can fill our hearts and our family with joy and contentment which cannot be substituted.  Scripture says, "True godliness with contentment is itself great wealth.".

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