GETTING WHAT WE WANT

Much of what we want is only what we think we want. 
 
Life is perfectly willing to give us whatever we want, if we are persistent about it, constantly wishing for it over a period of time.  The reason Life is willing to do so is because it knows, in its way, how it will turn out, that before long we will be disappointed.
 
Life’s accommodating us this way is so we will get what we want out of our systems.   Vedanta calls this “purification,” clearing things off the table so we can concentrate on the real purpose of existence which is spiritual awakening, union with God.  This is to say, we cannot awaken spiritually as long as we have unfinished business, "wants" that we believe we need to explore, to experience, to understand.

But the reason we will be dissatisfied once we get what we want is because the thing, the person, the situation we want is ever changing; it doesn’t stay what it was when we first got it.  But then we ourselves are constantly changing, too, which is to say, the one who wants the thing, the person, the situation, is not the same individual who gets it, and the one who gets it is not the same individual who has to live with it.