Have Your Cake & Eat It Too

Have Your Cake & Eat It Too

If there's a one-liner surely you have heard many times, it's YOU CAN'T Have Your Cake & Eat It Too but ironically, our thread right now is bannering Have Your Cake & Eat It Too.  At first, this sentiment is a bit confusing.  After all, WHY would you get the cake if you wouldn't plan to eat it anyway?  So, if the cake is yours, WHAT's stopping you from enjoying it?  BUT just like any good paradox, the devil is in the details.  The saying is a bit confusing because of a quirk in the syntax of grammar that leads us to read the sentence a bit wrongly💴💷💵

I'm sorry, I DON'T intend to turn our thread today like a grammar class BUT some slight touches just CAN'T be avoided.  WHY?  Because to say that Have Your Cake & Eat It Too highlights the paradox between WANTING versus HAVING.  In fact, WANTING and HAVING are often deemed as rivals.  They sometimes mean and work together BUT oftentimes end up butting heads and forcing us, the readers and end-users, to choose one or the other.  And that makes things murkier because once we get confused, the net result is that the resulting action we take can either be right OR wrong📗📙📘

The thing is, to HAVE and to WANT are desirable states.  When we HAVE something, it comes with security, predictability, control, and satisfaction.  And let's agree, many OR[ I think] everyone wants to be satisfied.  On the other hand, WANT is anticipation, desire, motivation, and pleasure.  WHEN we get WHAT we WANT, we experience something close to HAPPINESS.  And YES, many OR [I think] everyone wants to be HAPPY.  Yes, we can Have our Cake & Eat It Too💎💎💎

So, WHEN we WANT something, it reinforces the fact that we DON'T have it.  On the other hand, WHEN we HAVE something and are satisfied with it, we may NO longer want it.  Imagine the last time you were hungry.  You likely wanted food. Your mind began to summon up images of your favorite meal as you considered what you might eat✅✅✅

As that WANTING for food increases, so too does your desire and motivation to seek out a delicious meal.  So what's our takeaway today?  Sometimes, the irony of having what we want is that we end up getting MIXED-UP, akin to getting confused OR not having a firm decision.  Sometimes, IT'S ON US, IT'S US creating issues.  Have Your Cake & Eat It Too❗❗❗