"I have everything I’ve ever wanted, but I wanted the wrong things…"
It’s 12:58am, and here I am, all alone in one of the corners of the office (yeah, I know, I’ve work on Sundays, so what??), thinking if everything I have in my life right now, all of ‘em, are the things that I really wanted.
I remember I was watching TV around late last year. It was around 
11:30 PM-ish and I was tuning on different channels, until I came accross ‘The Oprah Winfrey Show’. Since it was quite a boring night, I said to myself, "I’m sure there’s something interesting here.." And so I stopped clicking the remote and started paying attention to that episode. I was delighted to see the cast of ‘Desperate Housewives’ (I’ve only seen a couple of episodes, but this TV series is, or was, a hit…or so I’ve heard). One of the main characters of the show, Eva Longoria (who played Gabrielle Marquez) talked about her character, and then later said, "I have everything I’ve ever wanted, but I wanted the wrong things."
And so I paused for a while and started to collect my thoughts…
I told myself, "C’mon!! These words came from someone who played a role of a desperate housewife, how could I possibly relate?" But, hey, it got to me…and it can get to anyone too. This line, for me, is universal. I mean, c’mon, think about it. Look at your surroundings. Look at your stuff. Look at yourself. Face the mirror. What do you see? Is the person on the mirror the person you’ve always wanted to be? Or is this person the person you’ve always wanted to be, but then when you actually became that person, you then realized that the life this person brings to you is in contrary to your beliefs and principles in life?
So you look in the mirror everyday. What do you see? Do you see yourself? Or just parts of you? Do you rail at the image, hoping it will be different, better, more like, someone else’s? Do you tell yourself, "I have everything I’ve ever wanted, but why am I unhappy?" It’s simple. It’s all because you have wanted the wrong things. We have always (well, not really always, but most of the time) wanted the wrong things. We don’t really realize this… not until we actually get what we’ve always wanted.
So…do you still think falling for a line deliverd by a chick, even more, a desperate housewife, is sort of…disturbing???
Think about it…’coz I have.
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