I want

Does the feeling of want ever go away? 

And when you get what you want, why do you want more? 

Was what you wanted no longer good enough?

Was it ever really as good as it seemed?

 Is the novelty gone now that its yours? 

Can we ever be happy with what we have, or must we constantly want?

Last night I was thinking (surprise surprise), about want, and wanting. It seems like 

as soon as you get something you've wanted you're almost instantly lusting after something else.  A "this is nice, but whats next" attitude. Its like a camp fire, when you first light that fire you give it a decent amount of wood to consume, when it begins to burn through that wood you are forced to feed it more or let it burn out. When you don't have a large supply of wood at hand you have to find that wood while the fire is consuming the wood before it. You are working hard to find this wood and the fire just keeps using up the wood its already received and unless you continue to give it the wood that it wants it will lose its flame and die. That fire can never gain the same amount of satisfaction from the wood it has already had so it searches for more.  

It drives me crazy. I know I've done it, and I see others do it as well. Is it human nature to be nothing more then a fire consuming what we want and then moving on to the next big thing? I don't think I will elaborate in this post what exactly I was thinking of last night, I may save it for another time, but I really could not help but to wonder how we can go from wanting and craving something so badly, to getting it and realizing you never really wanted this, you wanted what you would want after obtaining this.  It's a never ending cycle of want. It never ends. 

Will having enough ever be enough? 

Now, although I have portrayed the cycle to be a not so good thing I also think it can be a very good thing. The "Want Cycle", as I am going to call it is what keeps me wanting to know more. What I know now will never be enough, I won't ever know enough. I'm not even sure my brain has the capacity to hold everything I want to know, but I am going to continue feeding my fire for knowledge until I die. So in at least that way,

 I will never have enough.