FabSwingers.com forum: Getting What You Want Most Of The Time

By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

In this day and age when the divide of social class is getting greater and greater, I often wonder is it bad that some people get pretty much whatever they want.

Now you you could look at that from a materialistic perspective or a sexual perspective or even a psychological perspective (I include love in this).

But one can not deny that there is a percentage of people who clearly enjoy the pleasures of pretty much whatever they seek.

Now some of you might argue that they won't appreciate anything till it is gone and all that stuff and hard work and the true value of things and arguments along these lines.

But that is my point. That is exactly what I am getting at - I'm talking about the ones who will never have to cause simple they will never be in a situation where anything of that nature will prevail on them.

Your thoughts please?

Remember this is a forum for discussion - not a slanging match.

Thomas

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I read this twice and don't really understand what you're getting at.........

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By *icketysplitsWoman
over a year ago

Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound

Most of us get what we want most of the time; mostly we don't want much. The problem is when you can't handle not getting what you want.

As the song says, you can't always get what you want but if you try you get what you need.

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By *entaur_UKMan
over a year ago

Cannock

"I read this twice and don't really understand what you're getting at.........

All i could think of after reading it was a line from the Suede Song - Beautiful ones.......You don't think about it, you don't do without it, because you're beautiful.

Do beautiful people get what they want without really trying?

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By *ustcutieWoman
over a year ago

edinburgh

"I read this twice and don't really understand what you're getting at.........

Nor me, but I'm a blonde hairdresser so I have an excuse

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"As the song says, you can't always get what you want but if you try you get what you need.

I like this

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

If I read it right, I'm not really interested in what others get and how easily they get it.

They're not impacting on my life or that of the good lady wife.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"I read this twice and don't really understand what you're getting at.........

Nor me, but I'm a blonde hairdresser so I have an excuse

I shoulda been blonde

It's a good job Mrs N is a genius.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

It's all about managing expectations, if you set your sights too high, dissapointment is a likely result, if you live within your means, and keep it realistic, we can all get what we want, financially, socially and physically. One things for sure, we all come in with nothing, and we'll all go out with nothing, so striving for 'stuff' seems a little pointless to me. Be happy with what you've got, contentment, at any level, far outweighs success in my book......nowt wrong with a little ambition though

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"It's all about managing expectations, if you set your sights too high, dissapointment is a likely result, if you live within your means, and keep it realistic, we can all get what we want, financially, socially and physically. One things for sure, we all come in with nothing, and we'll all go out with nothing, so striving for 'stuff' seems a little pointless to me. Be happy with what you've got, contentment, at any level, far outweighs success in my book......nowt wrong with a little ambition though "

Elegantly written. Very very true. I read something very similar in a book and it stuck with me. Smart guy!

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By *bi HaiveMan
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over a year ago

Cheeseville, Somerset

I suspect that the percentage of people who get everything they want all of the time will be a small fraction of 1%.

Small enough to be insignificant.

*i want a pony

**and a unicorn

***and a new job

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By *iamondjoeMan
over a year ago

Glastonbury

I'm extremely good at having my cake and eating it

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I'm a 'it's better to travel than arrive' sort of person. If everything I wanted landed in my lap I'd quickly grow bored and continue to seek other things. I've had fleeting glances of perfection and soaked them up as much as I could because I knew they wouldn't last.

For those that have everything they desire - good for them. Not all of us were meant to struggle.

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By *iamondjoeMan
over a year ago

Glastonbury

My gay best sometimes calls me Mary Fucking Poppins -

"All you've got to do is click your fingers and everything falls in to place".

This is not strictly true, of course, but it looks good from the outside

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I think I understand what you are getting at. Some people never have anything bad happen in their lives or to work for something. It's all laid on a plate.so they don't fully appreciate it.

Personally, striving for things and having bad things happen. Sometimes I've had crap times, but you get close networks of friends and family from going through tough times. You appreciate what you have - and would do more to help others if you could. You can empathise properly too as you have lived through a particular experience. So give me reality over the gilded life - to me it's a life well lived.

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"I'm a 'it's better to travel than arrive' sort of person. If everything I wanted landed in my lap I'd quickly grow bored and continue to seek other things. I've had fleeting glances of perfection and soaked them up as much as I could because I knew they wouldn't last.

For those that have everything they desire - good for them. Not all of us were meant to struggle."

Nicely put. Not just a tight little hard body, but deep as well....Bravo x

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"I think I understand what you are getting at. Some people never have anything bad happen in their lives or to work for something. It's all laid on a plate.so they don't fully appreciate it.

You make a very good point x

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Also remember that someone may APPEAR to lead a charmed life and get everything they want, but you don't know unless you are that person what is really going on in their life.

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By *rightonsteveMan
over a year ago

Brighton - even Hove!

Everyone is equal. Some are more equal than others.

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By *icketysplitsWoman
over a year ago

Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound

"Also remember that someone may APPEAR to lead a charmed life and get everything they want, but you don't know unless you are that person what is really going on in their life."

They may just hide their demons really well.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Everyone is equal. Some are more equal than others. "

I love that quote, but hate that book!

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