Getting What You Want

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By Steve Brown, Overcoming Setbacks


"I saw another senseless thing under the sun: a man alone, without
son or brother, working endlessly, his greed never satisfied with
wealth ' For whom do I work and deprive myself of pleasure?' This,
too, is nonsense and mistaken investment." (Ecclesiastes 4:7-8)

GETTING WHAT YOU WANT

I was in a bookstore the other day and a clerk came up to me and
said, "Can I help you?"

"I don't know what I want," I answered. "But when I find it, I'll let
you know."

Most of us are like that. We're really not sure what we want. And
even if we stumbled onto what we thought it was, we would probably
find out that it wasn't what we wanted anyway.

The most unhappy person in the world is not someone who didn't get
what he or she wanted. The most unhappy person is the one who got
what he or she wanted and then found out that it wasn't as wonderful
as expected. The secret of a happy life is not to get what you want
but to live with what you've got. Most of us spend our lives
concentrating on what we don't have instead of thanking God for what
we do have . Then we wake up, our life is over, and we missed the
beauty of the present. You think about that.

What do you really want out of life? In your pursuit of it, are you
missing anything along the way? Could you even be missing greater
joys? Don' treat these questions flippantly. Your answers will reveal
a lot about what you hold most dear, and what your answers don't
include may tell you what you're missing in the process.

Is this pursuit really worth the process?


Shared by Joe Gatuslao
Bacolod City, Philippines