Why is it that people always want what they can’t have? It seems to be human nature to want something more if you know you can’t have it. Well as they say, life is paradox. What you want, you don’t get. What you get, you don’t enjoy. What you enjoy, is not permanent. What’s permanent is or seems so boring, but no matter what, that’s life. Ironic isn’t it? Yet truly worth living for. There are two different ways of want, the one where you want something, but do nothing at all to try and pursue it and achieve it because you think you won’t make it or get it, so you give up hope before you have even tried. You want something? Go get it, go do it, no excuses, period. Or do you want and crave something that is or at least at the time being seems humanly impossible? It all depends, if it’s possible to get something, why sit back and just let your mind wonder, just get up, make the effort, and go get it! Simple enough right? I think rather the question is, “why do people want?” Whether they can have something is beside the point. The human consciousness doesn’t think in fixed “can” and “can’t” have or achieve something; it merely “desires” a thing. Desire itself is a fire that is unquenchable, this is desire for anything. People always want more, even when they know they have all they need. They always have someone or something to blame for their lack of whatever it is. It’s just so much easier to point the finger at someone rather than take full responsibility for yourself. Better to have tried and failed than to never have had the gumption to try at all. I think it would just be easier to accept what you are given and what you are not. But to accept is to settle and that’s the last thing anyone wants to do, people want to have it all. Is it greed? I think not.

Maybe Mr. Spock from Star Trek was right when he said “You may find that having is not so pleasing a thing, after all, as wanting. It is not logical, but it is often true.”