"The Waste Land"

"The Waste Land"  is one of the most interesting poems that I have read to this day.  This poem really opened my eyes up to see how much time is wasted or how the resources that we are given are wasted.  One of the examples I really liked was that of the lady who was given money by her husband to fix her teeth.  How many of us have done the same thing that she did with betting the money in a game that never should have been considered. It's amazing to see how T.S, Eliot used simple examples to draw in his reader to see that our constant betting of the simple things in life become our very own waste land of our life.  It is always easy to receive the resources given to us whether it be from a loved one or a friend, but it is always harder to keep that resource, whether it be money or something else, and put to good use.  In many cases many of us tend to use the resource carelessly instead of putting it to good use and saving it for when we need it.  I believe that "The Waste Land" was a way for T.S. Eliot to help all his readers understand that we are in power of putting everything we have into to good use and not into something that will cause us to just loose and throw everything away.  This poem was in a way a help to all his readers to prevent them from creating a waste land that they can never come out of.