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Getting is better than keeping. It's plain and simple. I agree with it wholeheartedly. Getting rich is invariably more exciting than keeping riches. When you begin to get rich, you have that unshakeable hope of potential. You have all of the potential. How rich will you get? How will you get it? When will you get it? What will you do with it? When do you start--no, when do you stop?
See, that's the thing. You don't stop. No one ever says, "Well, gosh darn it. I'm a millionaire already? Sweet, I'm done now." In fact, getting is so much better than keeping, that no one ever wants to stop getting. We live in a very more more more society. Even the Victoria Secret advertisement is literally, "More More More Bling." You can never get enough. You can never keep enough so, by default, you always have to get more. And what's more fun than that?
On the one hand, getting is very destructive, maybe right up there with keeping. When Walter's mother gives him the 6,500 dollars to put some in the bank for his sister and some for him to do with what he will, he uses it all to do with what he will. He takes more more more. He destroyed his sister's dream and also his own, because he wanted to get more. Also, on the other one hand, keeping is volatile as well. In The Diamond as Big as the Ritz, the need to keep their wealth a secret--to keep their way of life--the entire family literally became serial killers. Even if only the father and the slaves did the killing and kidnapping, the daughters invited people and the son didn't stop it. Guilty by association.
So now you know getting is dangerous; it's addictive because potential is addictive, but keeping turns people into murderers (pretty much 99% of the time). But away from all the heinous talk, people will always want more, so they'll always be getting or trying to get. People will always want to keep what they have so they'll always be keeping. Nonetheless, getting is infinitely better than keeping. If you don't agree with me, would you rather get more food or just keep what you have? Don't be modest, we all want more. It's only natural. So in this way, I completely agree with How It Feels to be Colored Me by Zora Neale Hurston. The African-Americans/Negroes/Blacks/whatever is politcally correct had it better than white people. They were given an opportunity to go crazy with "gettingness" while the white people had to maintain their way of life in all of their "keepingness."