When we get what we want, we want what we don’t have!!
It’s a slippery slope, sometimes getting what we want is the worst thing that can happen to us. If it comes easy, it comes greasy, slips through our fingers and then the more we have the less we feel like we’ve got.
This concept we are sold of fame and fortune is an empty promise, a void with no real substance, people who arrive there quickly learn that it is not made of what they thought it would be made of.
The void comes courtesy of a lack of definition, the promise is that when we arrive at destination success that it will define us, and of course it can’t and doesn’t.
In the same way when we believe that destination happiness is a place, a face, an object or a person, we ultimately come up against this empty void.
The more happiness you think you have attained, the more you want, the more money, fame and success you think you have attained, the more you want.
The salesman sells you on more, but what you feel is less, it’s an uncomfortable paradox, the more safety you get, the less safety you feel.
It’s a hint that the deeper aspects of life send us to let us know that the things we play with are not made of definition, we are already defined by life, and try as we might, we can never add to it in any real sense. It’s a great leveller, the vagrant, the destitute, the middle class, the upper class and the filthy rich all cut from the same piece of mortal cloth, now that’s a truth you can take to the bank.