Why?...

By Vichara

While I am certainly not above the fray of some attachments, there is excess of attachments that lead me to the question of “Why?” Why do you need more than one house to live in? While there is some perceived tax value to this concept you now have 2,3,4 places to put “stuff” in. You can only live in one at a time and while you are in one the others sit quietly while thousands have no place to sleep at night. Why 2,3,4 or more vehicles to drive while there are many that need to walk miles to find food and water. Why? While some will say well you only live once and if you got it, do it, enjoy it. You certainly can’t take all the things with you when you die. I think of better ways to disperse the dollars it costs to acquire these extraneous things but you need to ask yourself “Why? And follow your own path.

ingratiate • \in-GRAY-shee-ayt\ • verb
: to gain favor or favorable acceptance for by deliberate effort -- usually used with "with"

Example Sentence:
Even though the candidate is doing everything he can to ingratiate himself with voters, he still finds himself trailing in the polls.

Did you know?
Seventeeth-century English speakers combined the Latin noun "gratia," meaning "grace" or "favor," with the English prefix "in-" to create the verb "ingratiate." When you ingratiate yourself, you are putting yourself in someone's good graces to gain their approval or favor. English words related to "ingratiate" include "gratis" and "gratuity." Both of these reflect something done or given as a favor through the good graces of the giver.