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We Want What’s Transient, and Ignore What’s Already Ours

By Daniel Miessler in Philosophy
Created/Updated: March 12, 2019

Want, We Want What’s Transient, and Ignore What’s Already OursWhy is it that nothing at all is of interest when you have 40 channels of T.V. in perfect clarity, yet when your cable goes out and you only have one channel full of static, your attention is riveted regardless of what’s playing?

I know the answer. We want what we can’t have and we lose interest in anything we posess completely. You’d be very suprised at how many things in life this applies to.


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