After You Get What You Want You Don't Want What You Wanted At All

I was looking through my planner and realized that there were quotes written through it. Here’s one that caught my eye: Sometimes you may need to say ‘no’ to something good to say ‘yes’ to something better.

At first, it seems like good advice, right? What we think may be good may actually hinder us from getting something that’s a better fit for us. Except….it leads us to keep passing everything up in hopes that “something better” will turn up. When does the point come when we just have to settle on what we have right in front of us? And, is settling on that thing really giving up? We say ‘settling’ like it’s a bad thing. We always are going to want more than what we have because the grass is always greener. When is it ok to just be content with what we have?

It’s not all right to say ‘no’ to everything in hopes that something better will appear but it’s also not ok to settle on the first thing that presents itself because it leads to regretting. Regretting how things turned out and regretting what could have happened if things were different. I don’t regret anything. Everything is a lesson. I regret situations not turning out differently, but not the actual outcome.

After you get what you want, you don’t want what you wanted at all. Ain’t that the truth…