Happiness is not having what you want. It is wanting what you have."

I hear this one quite often.

Here's my only problem with it. It's a pretty simple one actually.

If you are comfortable wanting what you have, how would you know what other possibilities are out there that you might want to try?

A little philisophical perhaps.

The way I see it, if you want what you have, that's great. If you want something you don't have, you can sometimes work hard and get it. And then there are the things you work towards that may be you get and maybe you don't but you are always striving for.

Those are called Dreams.

So if you are striving for your dreams and don't yet have them, but are working hard, does the quote in my title still hold true?

I don't know.

I simply don't.

I know what I want. I have about 75% of the things that I want in life. I am very comfortable with these odds. The 25% that I don't have feels like 200% though.

The same person who commented that I don't take enough care of myself has also commented that with hard work a person can achieve exactly what they want.

I find that easy to believe on some levels and hard to believe on others.

I suppose like anything else in life, "Happiness is not having what you want. It is wanting what you have.", is probably full of exceptions.

I think I am one of them.

Why ???? Well it's simple. I was happy and content and wanted exactly what I had. Was perfectly happy. Didn't need anything else. Then that changed and I was put into a state of confusion and now I want things that I didn't even really care about before. And yes, they will make me terrbily, delioursly happy.

There was a thaw on my heart.

And now I have to figure out how to live like this.