I want it now!

I want the world; I want the whole world. I want to lock it all up in my pocket, it's my bar of chocolate. Give it to me now!

Buonasera my fellow anti-social butterflies, and welcome to yet another day of nothing but surrounding yourself in the most recent thoughts of others in the form of a blog post. Tonight as I sit on my bed thinking about how I do not have to travel 45 minutes to uni tomorrow, I realised that I have been absent from both of the blogs that I contribute to for quite some time, and have decided to gather up some of my random thoughts and extract one from my head. Tonight I want to write about want; why and what do we all want?

The general consensus is that we want things so that we can be happy, which sounds reasonable enough to me, but how can we measure this happiness in comparison to how much we want? Some things obviously result in a larger rise in happiness than others; the purchase of new shoes on sale is likely to be of less 'happiness value' than getting a 99.95 ENTER score, although it would be the opposite in my case (OMGZZ I LOVE SHO3Z! [but seriously, I do love shoes]). The measure of happiness from obtaining things that we want can be distracting us fromt he actual happiness.

There are many different things that make different people happy. I would like to go on about fetishes but that is for another blog post; another time (I can tell that you are all looking forward to that). No matter who you are, I am sure that you desire both material things and 'something more' which could include something stupid like 'love'; something along those lines. Now, a post about how much I hate 'love' is yet another thing that shall be left for another time, but for this post I do wish to quote; well to quote someone, I am unsure who; something that is actually relevent: "pleasure of love lasts but a moment, pain of love lasts a lifetime". It is on that note that I ask you this: is it not better to desire things that are certain to bring happiness that will last forever without the pain, or that are easily replaced? A television perhaps, or maybe your very own goose that lays giant golden eggs. The different things that make us happy also depend on our mood; for example right now I can only think of one thing that I want more than some Chinese dumplings, and that is a topic that you do not want me to get into because reading a huge rant about how my ex should be shot is not that interesting despite how theraputic it is to write. The point is; that's right, my posts have a point; that it is hard to measure a general 'happiness value' for all things because every person is different at any given time.

My life plan seems to rely heavily on winning the lottery to provide me with all the material things that can bring me happiness such as an unnecessarily large house, a 1969 Pontiac GTO, a wadrobe so full that I couldn't possibly wear all the clothes inside it, and a home interior that is completely cohesive and complementary. Just the thought of these things makes my heart leap for joy, but does all of that make me seem greedy? What exactly can be classified as 'greedy'? If I want something and it does not deprive someone else of happiness, then I don't feel that I can be labelled as 'greedy'. It is true that we all want to gain the greatest pleasure with the least amount of pain, which is an underlying theme in the criminlogical Classical Theory which I'm sure none of you care about; but does this make us all selfish and greedy? Most of humanity thinks of their own happiness before that of others, not to say that they do not care about the happiness of others, but it is certainly of less concern than their own. Most people want great amounts of money and the highest level of happiness that they can possibly achieve. I guess this makes us a greedy world, but it is simply human nature to be this way; it is human nature to want; it is humannature to begin your career as a typical boyband but then, as boybands lost the love of the 13 year old girls, (their key demographic) to change into a group that sings mainly covers of songs that old ladies would buy and that they never wanted to sing in the first place. Sure they are making money, but where has their dignity gone? Where is their self respect? Let's move on from that stupid comment please.

So, how does this 'greed' thing work? Does having more make you want more? If we reach a desired level of happiness are we, as human beings, likely to stop wanting? Do we need to keep receiving to maintain happiness? When do we classify ourselves as 'happy enough'? Do I ask too many questions in my blog posts? The answers to all these questions, and more, in the next installment of "Nobody Cares; They Only Read Due to Boredom"! (But not really, this topic will probably never be seen again on "Fake It For Me"; try to control your sadness.)

(Points for whoever links the opening and closing lines to one of my favourite childhood films! Bonus points if you find the reference inside the text to the same movie. Games are fun.)
Don't care how, I want it now!