It seeps in at a tender age..I mean one's hopes and expectations.
As a child we wish for better( better than your cousin's or friend's) toys. A few years later marks replace toys, because you need to live up to your parents expectations and make it through a reputed institution ( nothing less will do). You grow up a little more and now you are wishing for a good university. Some years later it is a good job that you want. Fast forward your life a little more and now it is a better job that figures right at the top in your wish list.
Meanwhile you are also hoping to meet your dream soul mate, raise a brilliant kid and what not! Add more years and then we want to own a decent house.Going forward you will need a bigger and a better house.
Then comes the time, when your kid is all grown up and you want him to get the best job in the world. Maybe after that, get him/her married to the best girl/guy on the planet. What after that?? Grandkids ofcourse!! What about retirement?? Definitely you are looking at a life of luxury after you retire. And then maybe just maybe some of us might even wish for a painless death, while you are sleeping preferrably. What then? Does it end there?
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Wish-list is often long in a short life. Take for example our case. When we decided to add many additional rooms to our big house on the plea that the grand children would need them, both the kids are well set to live abroad with their parents.But to wish or expect is only human; not to do so is I am afraid, not.
Thanks for this interesting post,Pallavi.
Never ending desires!!! Probably I may even wish to have a Great Funeral after my death.
interesting and very true!
it doesnt end anywhere
now imagine god's plea when he has to hear us repeatedly asking for the next best thing and still not giving up once we get there!
Thanks for all the comments! They mean a lot :)
A phrase used by Mughals:
"Paani aur armanon ki taseer ek hai, aage badhna "
(The very property of water and wishes is the same; to keep flowing)
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