Things that you want the most...

...are the things that you get the last. Is that really true, or do some of us get exactly what we want at the time when we want it. If we get something too easily, it would loose its importance for us. Somewhere we want to work hard for what we want, sometimes unconsciously what matters to us more is the actual journey than the destination. Because if we get whatever we desire, whenever we want it, well things would not be challenging anymore. The primal instinct of us living beings, be it humans or animals, is to FIGHT for what we want. Animals fight for their prey, pre-historic men hunted and fought for their food, in tribes and ancient mythology men always fought for the queen, since time immemorial man has fought for land...the list is endless. The fact is, when we want something and when we fight for it, their is a gratification which is not attained by merely getting to the destination the easy way. If we lose, indeed it hurts, but we still have this satisfaction for having 'fought' for what we wanted, having 'tried' to achieve our utmost desires.

On a different note, there are things, not so materialistic, that we've had all our lives and never really appreciated. I have a bad habit of realizing the importance of the presence of someone in my life, in their absence.

Whether it is the doting love of my parents, the unconditional friendship and support of my close ones, I never really came to appreciating it as much when I was next to them. It was when I moved away, or when people went separate ways that I realized how I had taken things for granted on more than one occasion. The thing is, its all in the past and it can never be brought back. But these realizations showed me how it is so easy to give importance to the most trivial things in life, how we run after things that don't even matter but we want them anyways just because we think we need them. Our desire for that "something" or "someone" makes us so blind that we ignore what is right in front of us. What we have been looking for might be right by us, just in a different shape and form....

' Sometimes, the last thing you want comes in first,
Sometimes, the first thing you want never comes,
And I know, that waiting is all you can do,
Sometimes...'
- Lyrics from Strange and Beautiful by Aqualung