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I have to share this excerpt from The Te of Piglet, by Benjamin Hoff:

“Advertisements tell us to buy whatever-it-is and Spoil ourselves. An appropriate word, spoil. We deserve it, they say…Store layouts are carefully designed to encourage impulse buying…Practically everything from hairstyles to life-styles is endorsed as some soft of drug to be taken Now for Instant Relief. If you have this model of automobile, this style of clothing, this shape of girlfriend, or this sort of romantic entanglement, you will be happy. You will be loved. You will be Somebody. Those who can’t have such things are doomed to frustration. Those who can have them are doomed to the inevitable disappointment. As Oscar Wilde put it, ‘In the world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants and the other is getting it.’ We are reminded of the old Persian curse: ‘May your every desire be immediately fulfilled.’”

I think this is very true. If we get the things that we want immediately, all the time, they’re just not worth very much to us. We don’t really enjoy them, or appreciate them. And it leaves us with nothing to strive for. What’s life without challenges?

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