Why do we want what we can't have and have what we don't want?

Question

By the way, do you like my play on words?

It's been repeating over and over in my head.

Answer 1

Every human being have a particular confusion. Actually it is a part of your being, the world cant survive without demands, it will be ever increasing and ever changing. Everybody knows that we can't have everything but we still desire everything.
And as long as loving what we have, it depends on our nature. Actually human nature is to make aims, we always hold a task to achieve and what we have achieved is out of our task. Hence we always go for something else. However If you start liking it, u will stop demanding more and that is ever impossible, but yes it may increase and decrease to some extent, depending on our values and teachings from life. You can name it greed, unsatisfactory, looking for perfection, looking for varieties, but at last u will find yourself at the same point from where u started and its our destiny.
We are surrounded by facilities but we keep on inventing new facilities.
There is a popular phrase in Hindi, "Kabhi kisi ko mukammal jahan nahi milta, Kabhi jameen to kabhi aasmaa nahi milta. It mean that u cant always have everything if you go for earth u will lose sky and vice-versa. moreover there is one meaning out of it that show our tendency, that if you manage to earn earth u will go for sky instantly.

Answer 2

Basically this is called human nature to be precise envy.
First of all the thing at first that you have now that you dont want was once the things you wanted.Now you've grown to tired of it so you seek for new things that you think you need more but time will tell when you would get a grasp of it & then the cycle repeats itself.How funny:)

Answer 3

It's because what you currently have is not satisfying your needs. It's a bad thing to say especially when it comes to relationships but it's true. The truth hurts sometimes. But back to the question, it's hard to get what you want sometimes impossible but that's just life, you gotta try try over and over.

Answer 4

The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence.

Answer 5

So that we can always have something to do......... what would life be if we had everything we wanted and we did not want anything that we did not have.... perhaps death due to boredom and inaction!!

Answer 6

Bamma say "what you have become, is the price you paid, to get, what you used to want!"
Bamma otta know.

Answer 7

that's life by the way its fine i mean the way you wrote it

Answer 8

we want what we can't have for one simple reason. it's the forbidden fruit syndrome. and we have what we don't want because we don't want anyone else to have it either.

Answer 9

Because we are human and humans are basically selfish and greedy.

Answer 10

That is how life is....

What was told me when I was young is: "Your eyes are bigger than your belly".......

or rather..... We want more than we can handle.... how 'bout that war, huh?.... do we want it?.... We wanted it, we got it... Toyota!

your sister,
Ginger