Greener Pastures
What we want most in life or even at a point in time seems beyond grasp, and we are afraid to reach out for it lest our efforts fall short, circumstances do not permit or the time isn't right.. and we fall back empty-handed and in utmost disappointment.
If we do succeed in attaining what we wanted, we learn how well within reach it was all along. Or worse, it wasn't what we had thought it to be all along.
3 comments:
Dhruv, since when did you start sounding so wise??
that's another side of me few are aware of.
oh aah. i like i like.
and may i use this excellent opportunity to give to you -
It was the only thing I ever really wanted. And that's the sin that can't be forgiven--that I hadn't done what I wanted. It feels so dirty and pointless and monstrous, as one feels about insanity, because there's no sense to it, no dignity, nothing but pain--and wasted pain....Katie, why do they always teach us that it's easy and evil to do what we want and that we need discipline to restrain ourselves? It's the hardest thing in the world--to do what we want. And it takes the greatest kind of courage. I mean, what we really want.
Peter Keating, in Ayn Rand's The Fountainhead.
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