Money can never actually make someone passionate for something. It's an awkward thing, forcing oneself to think of how one can incorporate a job into business. Business is not an end but a means. Everyone needs creature comforts, but does anyone lack a place to live or food? Who could possibly lack the ability to get such things? For those that do lack, who could not find charity willing to provide?
Everyone wants to be famous, but to what end? Do we want to be rich? Worthless. Do we wish for people to think highly of us? Absurdity. Do we want to be remembered? Hypocrisy.
The longing for those things is human. To long to understand why you want them is of God.
For those who crave riches, is then your God your stomach? Seeking for yourself only the pleasures of this world is absurd when we understand the heavenly gift of God known as, you guessed it, heaven.
For those who wish for people to think highly of us, do you want respect? What will respect buy you at the supermarket? Do you want people to care for you or do you want people to compare themselves to you and long to be you? If you answered yes to the first, your efforts to become famous will be counted as vanity as what you produce will be just that, a product that people will either praise or slander. If you answered yes to the second, I commend you for your honesty, but the longing to be better than others is as vain as the feathers of a peacock.
The last question is deeper than we can fathom. Do you believe that Einstein sought to find out how the universe worked for the sake of wanting to be remembered? The Kings of old have been long forgotten; who cares for them and their ways? Those that are remembered are only remembered for good cause. They are remembered not so much as a person which is in and of itself worthless information, but as a "genius" which is just a fancy word for human. They should be remembered not as Gods among men, but as people who had ideas that made society progress. Heck, even evil men have thought up great ideas that helped humanity.
So I say to you, do not idolize anyone in your eyes. Speak to a celebrated member of society and you will soon realize that they are either incredibly arrogant or insecure of their abilities. Because they could always be better. We could always be better. We can either let that destroy us or move us to work towards self-perfection and towards societal good. But what is perfection? Can we look anywhere besides the heavens above for an answer? There are some questions only answered by the divine, the supernatural. God is perfection incarnate. Even if God doesn't exist, the idea of perfection does, which in and of itself points to something that is perfect. So the question still remains.
Perfection... What is?
