Paradox of wants.

We are wanting / greedy people. We always want something or the other. The problem here is our wants keep moving higher as we achieve the things which we wanted to achieve.

For example, you want a car, so you take up a loan and buy a car. You are extremely elated on buying the car and go around the city showing off your new car. Then you realize that everyone has a car and it’s not a big deal. So now you are just ok about owning this car.

Now, you think that maybe owning a house will be a good idea. You again take up debt to buy a house and are happy for 2-3 days after which reality hits you and you realize that oh even owning a house isn’t a big deal.

You move your wants even higher, maybe a world tour would be the right thing to do.

Now, you see what’s happening here. You achieve something and get happy about it for a while but soon this happiness is turned into greed for something else. The point is we all want to get things and we value all these things very highly until we actually have them.

Traveling to work in your own car feels more amazing before you own a car. But after owning a car, it’s just normal.

This is the paradox of wants, we value things until we have them, once we have them the value decreases at a fierce rate and we shift our greed to something else.

This paradox of wants keeps us perpetually unhappy and unsatisfied.

Happiness lies in what you already have because once you didn’t have that and we’re craving for it. Look around and count all you’ve got that most are deprived of and start feeling happy about those things.

Happiness is a choice. Break the paradox and be happy with what you’ve got.

-ChoubeySahab