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Just things I wonder about ... and some people are nice enough to answer. You are welcome to answer, too ... just click on "Comments" and off you go! IF you don't want to be Anonymous, use the Name/URL option and just put in your name ... no URL required .... Starting Jan 28th, 2009, I am using questions from "Table Topics: Right or Wrong?"
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I do not know ... but it sure seems to be a human condition.
Skinny people want to put on some weight ... fat people want to lose it. Tall people want to be shorter, short people taller.
Beautiful or rich people are afraid they are loved for their looks or their money and not for "themselves".
Sometimes the best way to find inner peace is not by getting what you want .... but by wanting what you have already been blessed with.
But I am still going to get a perm today ....
Ah, a philosophical question!
Wanting what we don't have is a part of the human condition . . . the grass is greener syndrome.
Contentment with our lot in life seems very transitory.
Wanting what we don't have is perhaps the negative saide of the human drive to improve, to create, to master our environment. Without that inherent discontent, would all the advances we have made over the centuries have happened? Would we have the civilization we have today, or would we still be living in trees, throwing rocks at bigger predators?
I think the weird, beautiful and tragic mix of intelligence, fear, envy, want, love, and curiousity that is the human condition makes us the apex animal on this planet.
Because we aspire to be better. It's our way of getting closer to ourselves even if it does get all twisted around.
I use to get perms when my hairs were straight. I use to straighten my hairs when they turned to frizz. Now I just dye it into submission.
I know the universe wants me to be blonde while I'm turning gray or there wouldn't be hair color.
When I had the simple life, I wanted more better...and I still do in some respects.However, I do spend time thinking back on the simple life. (the one where I didn't care if my house was a mess while I was doing art)
I am stil learning to enjoy what is now.
Or as my friend Ron once put it, "Why do all the guys who never work on their cars have garages, while I work out in the elements?" It is true that we want what we cannot have in many cases. Or we want things that really are less valuable or satisfying than we think when we finally get them. But it is in our nature, not only as humans but as Americans. Both instinct and cultural.
hey CinCin!! what a cool idea! glad La invited me.
hmmmm, why do we want we we don't have?? I think when we are going through these phases it's because we are not completely happy with ourselves and we are looking for a change to feel better. I bet most of the time it's a deep issue but we tend to look for the quick fix in our "quick" society.
Othertimes, I think it's just fun to do something totally out of the "norm", to have fun, to be different.
I'm one of those that has curly hair and always wanted to have straight. Of course, that was when straight was in.....now I just wish I didn't have to color it. hehehhee
The question speaks to me on an 'Internal Validation' level. We are all trying to validate ourselves whether we are conscious of it or not.
Exampple: Health issues aside - Why take baths IF we don't mind the outcome. Answer: It is generally considered socially unacceptable not to take a bath. That said I know people from the Kashmir area of India where bathing is an afterthought.
When I read the responses posted by these gifted people I read a common thread of the need for internal validation and acceptance - I'm no exception.
I'll go out on a limb here and say that our greatest fear is the fear of rejection. If we could just change this aspect of ourselves well we would be socially more acceptable? Hmm?
It is the American tradition! "Keeping up with the Jones".... "Grass is greener"....
I want wavy hair... I want to be thinner.... I want indepenant wealth.....
But every so often, we need to stop and say "I'm me and and I love me." Which today, I'm doing it! Thanks for bringing back the QOD today..... Love to y'all.
My quote on MYSpace was "It's not getting what you want, it's wanting what you have" which came from a Sheryl Crow song. Jarrod was offended by it but it was taken wrong by him. It is to remind me to enjoy every minute of whatever I "have" and not be thinking of what I might get someday..
we never really want to be our selves we want to look diffrent or we get tierd of looking the same way that is just the way it is
we never really want to be our selves we want to look diffrent or we get tierd of looking the same way that is just the way it is
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