You can't always get what you want.
So stop trying.
That's the motto that seems correct, like one to live by. Even when you think you got what you want, you're wrong. It's impossible. Something always turns up to change your mind, change what you want, change what you think you want, change what you got. There's an outcome you didn't see coming, a change of heart that tosses a wrench in things, something, something, that ruins it all.
Maybe it's you.
Maybe it's them.
Maybe it's no one at all.
But knowing what you want is the first step to getting what you want. And who really knows that? Maybe it should be "you rarely know what you want so you won't ever get it". That seems to inspire less whimsical belief that even though you can't always get what you want, maybe sometimes you will. That's just false advertising. People get sued for that shit in the real world.
Anyway. I guess my point is we will never get what we want, so maybe we should just settle for wanting what we get. This is where I am now, this is the life I have and the choices I have made, and I am okay with that. I am happy with that. How wonderful would it be if everyone felt that way? Not constantly dwelling on what could have been, but accepting and loving what is. Knowing it may be different tomorrow... or it may not. Loving what we have instead of coveting what we don't.
Sadly, that's not in our nature.
Human nature.
We are destined to forever want what we can't have, dwell on the what could have beens, and forever regret our choices... our lives... our pasts.
You can't always get what you want.
Or want what you have.
Forever human... forever dissatisfied.
