Be Careful What You Wish For

To put it plainly, wealth can change you. I don’t mean simply by providing you with more money, but rather the fact that it can change your entire persona. The majority of society desires more wealth, as they can then purchase more luxuries. However, be careful what you wish for, because money can destroy your relationships with others. 

Wealth may provide some with a sense of superiority over others, therefore causing them to continually portray themselves as “better” than the rest of society. This can result in the wealthy disregarding the people of their past, since they now have a desire to bond with those of their same class. But why does wealth even cause some to determine who they can or cannot associate with? As far as I’m concerned, if you enjoy being around somebody, then it doesn’t matter whether they are rich or poor. 

Washington from “The Diamond as Big as the Ritz” takes his desire of wealth to a whole new level. He finds it necessary to drug any of his own visitors to death, just so they will not expose his diamond estate. His wealth manipulated his mind into thinking it is correct to kill his own friends who had not yet even done anything wrong. In fact, this wealthy family has been affected by their money to such a great extent that they refer to their method of killing as being “done very nicely” (100). 

Now I am definitely not saying that if you become a millionaire in the future, you will then also become an evil person with no morals. However, I am saying that being wealthy is not necessarily the best option in life because it can cause you to lose what you truly love in life.