You may have heard the proverb (or whatever it is):

There are only two tragedies in life:


Not getting what you wanted

and

Getting what you wanted


I'm sure we can all presume how sour it is to not get what you (anyone) wanted. but........


Is getting what you (anyone) wanted really a tragedy?

And....

Is getting somewhat "close to" what you wanted a tragedy too in a strange way? (since it's not exactly "what you wanted" but it is "something" other than absolute zero? - This is presuming "getting EXACTLY what you wanted" is surely going to bring on "emperor has no clothes" disappointment)

Poll result (2 votes) True (1 votes) Vote False (option 1) - only not getting what you want is a tragedy (1 votes) Vote False (option 2) - you can kind of get "close" to what you want, and that's pretty satisfying - therefore not a tragedy (0 votes) Vote There's a "middle ground" that bypasses this notion of "two tragedies" entirely (0 votes) Vote

... is that once you've got what you wanted, there's ostensibly nothing else to strive for/worth living for, which is a tragedy.

Just a guess.

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When a person feels "keeping" what he or she or they "got" is too stressful and actually won't last, so it was really "transitory" and therefore a tragedy - not worth the trouble.


or....


he or she or they had what he she or they wanted for a good long time, but since things can't last, it eventually goes away/ends, and then pain comes.

but of course the last scenario has lot's of presumably good memories (unlike the first scenario) so that would be a stretch to call the last scenario a "tragedy"


There seem to be some other "getting what you wanted" being a tragedy things I might bring up later, if this Poll progresses further.

>When a person feels "keeping" what he or she or they "got" is
>too stressful and actually won't last, so it was really
>"transitory" and therefore a tragedy - not worth the trouble.
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>or....
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>he or she or they had what he she or they wanted for a good
>long time, but since things can't last, it eventually goes
>away/ends, and then pain comes.
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>but of course the last scenario has lot's of presumably good
>memories (unlike the first scenario) so that would be a
>stretch to call the last scenario a "tragedy"
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>There seem to be some other "getting what you wanted" being a
>tragedy things I might bring up later, if this Poll progresses
>further.

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isn't as fulfilling as you thought it could or would be.

I think everyone has experienced that.

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getting want you want, but negative stuff that may come behind it. mo' money, mo' problems type.

however, I've never heard this proverb either.

Y'all buy those labels, I was born supreme

Oscar Wilde Quotes. There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.

going by my own experience there have been times when I really wanted something but knew I had to wait for it (sometimes for several years - maybe something I had to save up for, or for something that had to run its natural course before I could obtain it. The funny thing is when the wait was over so to speak I no longer wanted whatever it was. I feel like there is a message in there somewhere.