You know that old expression, "I want it so bad I can taste it"? I don't really understand it. Unless you're talking about a bowl of ice cream or a doughnut, or some other edible food, then why would you want to taste it? For example, I want a new car pretty badly. However, I definitely don't want it so bad I can taste it. Even a clean hybrid car is surely not very tasty.
However the phrase came to be, wanting something so bad you can taste it has come to mean that you want something very much, more than most anything else. I'm sure we all know what that feels like. Now sometimes that's a sudden craving for a doughnut yes, or wanting a new car, computer, house, etc. Other times it means so much more. It means something you want so badly that it consumes your every thought. It's the first thing in your mind when you wake up and the last thing you think of before you go to sleep each night. You wonder about how to get it, you day dream about what life will be like once you have it, and there are days when the not having it literally breaks your heart, makes it hard to breathe or move.
These types of things are much more important than a doughnut, or even a car or house. These are the things that will make us feel whole as a person, the things we know our lives will not be complete without. I'm talking about like having a baby, or finding love, or battling cancer. The things we have little or no control over at all.
That my friends is what I think makes it so hard. If we had some sort of control we'd have it. We'd be whole and satisfied and happy, but we don't have control and no matter how badly we want it, or what we're willing to sacrifice for it, (like never eating another doughnut again) makes no difference because the control lies with fate, or someone else, or something else, or God.
Talking to God definitely helps. Praying for something isn't wrong, in my opinion, but that doesn't mean God can or will give it to you. Everyone has free will and if control of the thing you want lies with someone else then it's pretty much all on them.
So then, what do we do? We know that the only way we can feel complete is to have what we don't have, yet it is not within our circle of control to obtain it or acheive it. We can give it up as a lost cause and pray that God will help us find a new goal or desire so that we can somehow find a way to live without this one. For those of us who simply cannot give up hope though, it is not so easy to go down without a fight.
For us I think the answer is to live as if it is already ours, believing we have acheived what our heart truly desires and that all we need is the patience for it to come to fruition. Now this makes some days brighter, but it also makes the hard days darker when we are reminded over and over by every little thing around us that we do not have what we want most.
Personally, when I have those days, I let myself have ten good minutes (sometimes longer) for a good old fashioned pity party and think about just giving up, then I clean up, pick up my bootstraps, and soldier on through the muck. As my inspiration, Walt Disney, said once, I "keep moving forward," because I refuse to give up, no matter how much the world, or my own head, tells me I should. No matter what the logic in my brain says, my heart is never silenced because deep down I believe I already have what I want, that it's out there waiting for me and I just have to keep on until I find it.
So, here's to another day of trudging through the muck of life towards our goals. Good luck!
However the phrase came to be, wanting something so bad you can taste it has come to mean that you want something very much, more than most anything else. I'm sure we all know what that feels like. Now sometimes that's a sudden craving for a doughnut yes, or wanting a new car, computer, house, etc. Other times it means so much more. It means something you want so badly that it consumes your every thought. It's the first thing in your mind when you wake up and the last thing you think of before you go to sleep each night. You wonder about how to get it, you day dream about what life will be like once you have it, and there are days when the not having it literally breaks your heart, makes it hard to breathe or move.
These types of things are much more important than a doughnut, or even a car or house. These are the things that will make us feel whole as a person, the things we know our lives will not be complete without. I'm talking about like having a baby, or finding love, or battling cancer. The things we have little or no control over at all.
That my friends is what I think makes it so hard. If we had some sort of control we'd have it. We'd be whole and satisfied and happy, but we don't have control and no matter how badly we want it, or what we're willing to sacrifice for it, (like never eating another doughnut again) makes no difference because the control lies with fate, or someone else, or something else, or God.
Talking to God definitely helps. Praying for something isn't wrong, in my opinion, but that doesn't mean God can or will give it to you. Everyone has free will and if control of the thing you want lies with someone else then it's pretty much all on them.
So then, what do we do? We know that the only way we can feel complete is to have what we don't have, yet it is not within our circle of control to obtain it or acheive it. We can give it up as a lost cause and pray that God will help us find a new goal or desire so that we can somehow find a way to live without this one. For those of us who simply cannot give up hope though, it is not so easy to go down without a fight.
For us I think the answer is to live as if it is already ours, believing we have acheived what our heart truly desires and that all we need is the patience for it to come to fruition. Now this makes some days brighter, but it also makes the hard days darker when we are reminded over and over by every little thing around us that we do not have what we want most.
Personally, when I have those days, I let myself have ten good minutes (sometimes longer) for a good old fashioned pity party and think about just giving up, then I clean up, pick up my bootstraps, and soldier on through the muck. As my inspiration, Walt Disney, said once, I "keep moving forward," because I refuse to give up, no matter how much the world, or my own head, tells me I should. No matter what the logic in my brain says, my heart is never silenced because deep down I believe I already have what I want, that it's out there waiting for me and I just have to keep on until I find it.
So, here's to another day of trudging through the muck of life towards our goals. Good luck!