I have heard it is wrong to want a lot in my life. I have been told wanting to much is a mistake. I have been told we can not have everything we want. Is this true though?
From my early childhood to now I have yet to understand many things, the foremost on this list is the idea that we can not have anything we want. To my knowledge, I have never had anything I did not want and I have had everything I have ever wanted.
Everything I ever wanted as a child I worked for and had. Everything I ever had as a teenager I worked for and had. With those two facts in mind I can’t help but imagine the things I will want as a young adult I will work for and I will have. So the idea I would like to pose to you is this. Will you get everything you ever want? I believe you will.
If I go to school and I do not focus myself on my work and I do not educate myself to any great standards I will gain exactly what I want. I will of worked for little and I no doubt will of had an easy time of it. I will of sacrificed nothing for everything I wanted at the moment. When my future comes and I am not happy with it, the truth is I am may not be happy with it but I wanted it much more than the alternative future of hard work and intellect.
When we make a choice we only ever base it off of what we want. If I choose to give money to a family member out of the kindness of my heart it is “My” choice and I am only doing it because I “want” to do it. You could say I am being pressured into it by society but if that is the truth, I am making a choice. My choice is that I would rather conform to society than fight it and I want to take the action I am taking because the alternative is worse.
With that in mind it seems that every single action we take in life, the good and the bad, is all exactly what we want.
So is it wrong to want everything? I would say of course not. Everyone who has ever lived has wanted everything they have strived for, down to the smallest achievements and curses in their life. We want everything and often we get everything we want.
To end this blog I’ll leave you with a quote from Andrew Carnegie.
“Every act you have ever performed since the day you were born was performed because you wanted something” ~ Andrew Carnegie.
