Desperation is a state of hopelessness, that moment when you hear your best friend sold some shoes from his or her collections just to hold some cash, you'd know they did it out f desperation. When all hope is lost and there are no possible options to run to.
Desperation implies reckless kind of frustration. Greediness can also make a man act so desperate, when you want it by all means, you want to do anything to get it. Desperation for material things have led some people do some unthinkable and unimaginable things just to acquire wealth and property.
Check out the world today, what some people have done in the past true the act of desperation is hunting them today. There was a time when Peugeot 504 was the latest, if you don't have one then you're nobody, people doing everything just to acquire or drive one of that but what do we have today, if you're seen in one of those, some people even see you as a mental patient. Time flies, world changes, things evolves, don't go to the extent of commiting many atrocities just to have any of it because in time to come, those things you were so desperate to have will have no value and the evil which you did to get them will come hunting.
Don't be desperate, learn to exercise patience, whatever you did not eat today you will eat tomorrow, at least you still ate it, its not who got there first but who stayed there longer. Learn to exercise patience with all you do in life, desperation most times leads to regretted moments.