It's pretty clear: everyone wants to be more. Smarter, better-looking, funnier, more athletic... there's a lot of ways we go on our impossible mission.
Others know this, too. Marketing is often designed to tell us how we can improve. How we can make ourselves worth more. Different products all attempt to help the consumer in a very shallow way.
And then we can look at ourselves. How we compare whether someone is good-looking or not. Or determining ourselves by the grades we get. It's a never-ending cycle of sadness, despair, and self-centeredness.
And what happens if we actually got what we wanted? Would we really be happy? Would we want more, always discontent as we find others to compare ourselves to? Maybe we'd want less. Maybe what we want is just fool's gold.
We, as people, change. We get opportunities to project an image that differs from who we truly are. And many of us do: it's convenient, to say the least. I know that I do.
But if that is what we truly want, maybe what we really need to change isn't something that can be measured.
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