(교훈) 과욕 금지
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Now Andy Rooney. Why is it, I often say to myself, that most of us have a desire to eat more than we need? Whether we're having peanut butter on toast or leftover rice, we eat more than we need to keep our bodies going for the rest of the day. We have more desire for almost everything than we need. People have more desire for sex than the world needs to populate it. Just about all of us have this great desire to make more money than we need to live comfortably on. Many of us can't stay away from the stores where we buy stuff. We have this great desire to buy and acquire more possessions than can use. Can't something be done about this?
Those thoughts occurred to me recently when I brought my lunch up here to my desk from the cafeteria downstairs. I ate what I had, then I wanted a cookie, so I went back downstairs and bought two cookies, not because I was hungry, but because I desired the good taste of cookies. Maybe what some of us need from the medical profession is an anti-desire pill. We had a desire for too much food, money, sex, sleep or a thousand other things. We could just take this pill and it would hopefully kill the desire for whatever it was that we didn't need. If they ever invent the anti-desire pill, I'm going to take one before I sit down in front of the television set every night because I always end up watching a lot of stuff I'm not interested in.
Ever since the God Father, Al Pachino has been considered one of the biggest stars in film. But we were surprised when Pachino told us he thought the studio was going to fire him until this scene. “They kept me after that.” Now about to turn 70, Pachino is in a new HBO movie where he transforms into Dr. Jack Kevorkian. I’m Steve Kroft. I’m Leslie Star. I’m Scott Pele. I’m Bob Simon. I’m Moly Safer. I’m Katie Couric. Those stories and Andy Rooney tonight on 60 minutes.