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People Want What They Can't Have

Name: People Want What They Can't Have
Uploaded: 2025-06-19T00:15:07+00:00
Duration: 36 s
Channel: Shanli Liu, CPA, CTP
Description: In this monologue, the speaker observes that many people are never satisfied because they constantly desire what they do not have. They pursue one life…

19 Jun 2025 · 1 min

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In this monologue, the speaker observes that many people are never satisfied because they constantly desire what they do not have. They pursue one life path, then idealize the alternative they did not choose, overlooking the hidden costs of that alternative and the benefits of their current situation. This failure to account for trade‑offs leads to a perpetual cycle of longing, illustrated with relationship examples where singles yearn for marriage and married individuals later wish for singleness. The core message is that people tend to want what they lack, ignoring the full reality of each option.

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Life will not give you what you want if you want everything, and that's most people. They're not willing to make the trade. So what they do is they live out one path and then they look at the other path and say, oh, I wish I had done that. But they don't take into account all the costs of the other path that they're not knowing about because they never took it. And they're forgetting about all the benefits of their current life that they're assuming are going to be there and present in that other reality too, that they wouldn't have had to make the reverse trade. And so no matter what, you see people go from, you know, you know, single, and they're like, all I want to do is get married, and they get married, and all they want to do is get single. The only truth is people just want what they don't have.