cloud crests.

September 11, 2018.

The best sunsets are after the rains. The best days come after the worst.
It’s not that we never got insane sunsets before there was ever any rain, and it’s not that there were never any good days before those bad ones- it’s just that we appreciate the good after we’ve seen the bad.
People are like that I guess. If you have something, and you see someone with something better, most of the time we want the better thing as well. What we (or I, for that matter) don’t realize, is that there might be someone looking at what better thing I have, and wanting that. We tend to be blind to what bounties and blessings we have- just because we see someone with something *different*. It may not be better, but it’s different. Something we don’t have. What does he have? Why does he have it? I want it. No, I needed it. I have to have it. So we go out and buy it. Satisfied. A day. A week. A month. A year.
Ooh what’s that? A new “thing”?
I want it.

I catch myself falling in to this vicious cycle more often than I’d like to admit- and it’s not an easy cycle to break. A good example is the tech industry- they exploit this problem we have, they feed our desire for more. For different. There’s a new phone out by the same manufacturers almost every 6 months, a new laptop every year. Clothing goes out of fashion every season. There’s nothing wrong with the current generation of products, but no, we’re led to believe that the next gen is better. Newer. Faster. How can you be using something from 2016! It’s so outdated now. It’s so slow. It looks old. Gotta update. Gotta upgrade. New models’ out. Stop living in the past. The future is now dude.

Imagine if we started doing that with relationships. Man that would be insanity.

Isn’t it happening already though?