The Price of Getting What You Want

Is getting what you once wanted.

We all want what we cannot have. Why? Who knows, it could even be just because we want to know how it feels like to own the thing we want.

Whether we still want it after we get it though, is a different matter altogether. Be careful what you wish for, for the price of getting what you want, is getting what you once wanted.

So we have what we want. We are happy with it, we treasure it and we carry on with our life.

But sometimes, in getting what we desire, we no longer want it. The quest for the unattainable, the thrill of the chase, whatever it was that made us desire it in the first place, is no longer there. And then we discard whatever it was that we used to covet, throwing it aside like a broken trinket.

And what of those sacrifices that we make in our effort to get what we want? We may had thrown away friendships. Destroyed. Betrayed. Killed. All for what? To obtain something you really wanted but didn't really want in the end.


"The price of getting what you want, is getting what once you wanted."
~ Dream, Sandman #19