You Learn A Lot About People When They Don't Get What They Want From You
It's not so much that most people don't get what they want. it's more like people do get what they want and then become discontented with the fallouts
Oftentimes a persons true colors will show when they don’t get their way. Someone who seems nice, polite and level headed might turn hostile and rude when they’re inconvenienced or told no
I think the ability to feel unsatisfied goes on and on like that. You really never end up getting what you want because your wants are always changing … as are you.
Everything that we aspire or dream of achieving has a price tag attached to it. The issue arises whether we are aflame to pay that price or not! The price it demands is in the form of hard work, dedication and sincerity towards your goals. Honest efforts and sincere dedication never get wasted.
Also, there are times when people have everything they need but feel that they should be reaching higher. So, after they have what they thought they wanted, it turns out that it's not really the right thing and they really didn't get what they wanted, they now want something else. And then again, a lot of people don't get what they want because they are living out other people's expectations of them and not clear about what they want for themselves.
Sporadically, you work hard for something and you bargain for it. You say, "if I could have this, I will be satisfied and never won anything again." Then, some time goes by and you forget all about the bargain and now you won't be happy unless you get the new thing.
We don't know what to ask for and we don't know how to receive pleasures. By birth we are all immersed into an inherently self-serving, self-justifying nature. As a result we are only making calculations for ourselves through an instinctive “pleasure/pain principle”. But while our desire for pleasure in infinite, simply insatiable, our actual personal “vessels” where we can receive pleasures in is very limited, easy to satiate, block
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