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Excess

          
                               


In today's society we have become excessive. Some of us drink excessively to the point we pass out and don't know what we're doing, some of us smoke and take excessive amounts of drugs. Some of us spend an excessive amount of money on clothes and on looking good. Some of us eat an excessive amount of food that will cause major health problems and eventually kill us. Some of us have multiple sexual partners and none of us realise the damage were doing to ourselves until it's too late, excess is ruining us. 
I feel that our excessiveness is symbolic to how empty we feel sometimes, it highlights a deeper issue within us that we are trying to deny or hide and really we are just trying to fill a void in our lives by covering up how lonely and unhappy and how insignificant we sometimes feel. 
I think it is important to face these issues instead of trying to block it out and we need to realise that no amount of money or stuff will be as valuable as Gods love. Only God can complete us  

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