If You Could Have Everything You Wanted

If you could have everything you wanted, where would you stop. You wouldn’t. You would want to taste everything that existence has to offer.

We can’t have everything we want and so we are defined by what we cannot have. We cannot even have independence. At the most obvious observation we are dependent on the air around us.

In The Man Who Could Work Miracles, the Gods gave a middle aged man, a clerk probably, everything he wanted with the exception of the power to force others to love him. If he had settled without that demand he might be here now. But what he could not have caused him to see how hollow it was to have nothing except that which he commanded.