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Happy Wanting - Ep. 446
Happy Wanting is the healthy ambition that isn’t fueled by spite,
It doesn’t want to see others fail or to take shortcuts or cheat,
It wants a good game, a good challenge, a good fight,
Because without Happy Wanting life would feel incomplete.
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Ep. 446 - Happy Wanting
We begin as always
with the Happy Creed.
We believe in Happy,
in Balance and Growth,
of being Mindful and Grateful,
Compassionate and Understanding.
Yowza
Haha
My Happy Friends!
Imagine something that comes easy to you,
Now think of something that’s much harder to do,
Does achieving the easy thing mean quite as much
As winning the harder thing that needs just the right touch?
We all want to win things that take effort and skill,
Things that come too easy no longer give us a thrill,
Even if what we now call easy used to be tough,
We still strive to achieve more--old triumphs are no longer enough.
But wanting more doesn’t mean we’re doomed to be discontent,
It’s just how the game is played, it gets harder as we get stronger,
We’d quit playing if it got too easy--there’d be no challenge any longer,
And so wanting more than you have isn’t bad--depending on the extent.
If you want more than you need just so that others can’t have it,
Then that’s just trying to win by making other people lose,
But that’s not really winning and so it won’t last, you’ll eventually quit,
You’ll stop growing, you’ll turn bitter and become what others call bad news.
Happy Wanting is the healthy ambition that isn’t fueled by spite,
It doesn’t want to see others fail or to take shortcuts or cheat,
It wants a good game, a good challenge, a good fight,
Because without Happy Wanting life would feel incomplete.
Haha
Yowza
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By Geoffrey Bennett Ulrich
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Happy Wanting is the healthy ambition that isn’t fueled by spite,
It doesn’t want to see others fail or to take shortcuts or cheat,
It wants a good game, a good challenge, a good fight,
Because without Happy Wanting life would feel incomplete.
[full text below]
Ep. 446 - Happy Wanting
We begin as always
with the Happy Creed.
We believe in Happy,
in Balance and Growth,
of being Mindful and Grateful,
Compassionate and Understanding.
Yowza
Haha
My Happy Friends!
Imagine something that comes easy to you,
Now think of something that’s much harder to do,
Does achieving the easy thing mean quite as much
As winning the harder thing that needs just the right touch?
We all want to win things that take effort and skill,
Things that come too easy no longer give us a thrill,
Even if what we now call easy used to be tough,
We still strive to achieve more--old triumphs are no longer enough.
But wanting more doesn’t mean we’re doomed to be discontent,
It’s just how the game is played, it gets harder as we get stronger,
We’d quit playing if it got too easy--there’d be no challenge any longer,
And so wanting more than you have isn’t bad--depending on the extent.
If you want more than you need just so that others can’t have it,
Then that’s just trying to win by making other people lose,
But that’s not really winning and so it won’t last, you’ll eventually quit,
You’ll stop growing, you’ll turn bitter and become what others call bad news.
Happy Wanting is the healthy ambition that isn’t fueled by spite,
It doesn’t want to see others fail or to take shortcuts or cheat,
It wants a good game, a good challenge, a good fight,
Because without Happy Wanting life would feel incomplete.
Haha
Yowza