Never settle for less

An Argument

I've oft been told by learned friars,
That wishing and the crime are one,
And Heaven punishes desires
As much as if the deed were done.

If wishing damns us, you and I
Are damned to all our heart's content;
Come, then, at least we may enjoy
Some pleasure for our punishment!

~ Thomas Moore

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Yesterday marked yours truly's parents anniversary and they went to Bangkok for their celebration, returning yesterday. Guess who's been "asked" to drive to pick them up at the airport? *deadpan*

Nothing else very much significant, other than the new Toyota WISH 7 seater MPV that yours truly's dad bought for mom. *whistles*

As a testimony of yours truly's parents as a splendid couple, they went and purchased the same *sports bag of the same design of the same brand at different department stores separately for yours truly. Holy. Either yours truly is really really specific in taste or they are one compatible couple. And since your evilness is well aware that I am not remotely easy to predict in terms of taste, as all yours truly's clique will testify, especially since they have an headache trying to buy moi's bday presents every year (and resorting to CASH this year), yours truly assumed that it's the latter.

Should I be envious? Is it too much to ask for if yours truly won't settle for anything less than what my parents had?

But won't you want the same?

Why would anyone settle for anything less?

Oh wait.

Lotsa couples do.

Settle for less, I mean.

Is companionship really worth so much, enough to settle for less? I think not.

But then again, yours truly is comfortable in my own skin and happy. So maybe I have no grounds to judge. But then again, its not tat yours truly is against the idea of finding someone special, its just that I refuse to settle for anything less. So that actually should qualify moi to judge more than it disqualifies me?

Are you lost? Shrug. Not that yours truly care. After all, you must be truly bored to even read this. Besides, who are you to demand rationality from moi?

In gist, my worldview says one should wish for more while tempered by reality, but never never settle for less, reality nonewithstanding. Its a fine line of distinction but there is a line.

If only there were more people who believes and behaves like that.

Alas.

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