Didn't we almost have it all?

In such a material world where women love their shoes and men their technology and while we spend, spend, spend; do we ever pause to think that maybe we’ve got enough? There are after all people out there barely surviving on a day-to-day basis. When we buy something new, something expensive we immediately feel guilty, a part of us feels empty, as does our bank account. So if we feel this doubt and ever so slight unhappiness have we overstepped the mark? In life is it possible to have it all and more?

For all of us merely surviving is not enough and like everyone around us when we move up the ladder we comfort to it and it becomes not enough. But what if we try to jump the ladder too fast? When we move fast paced everything becomes blurry and we may lose that what we dearly possess while we’re lost in the moment. It isn’t until we stop to pause that we notice what we’ve dropped, and then we have to move backwards in our steps. Is this what we’re all doing? By buying ourselves out of our league do we believe that it will bring us the happiness of a superior league and yet realise when we get there we’ve left that happiness behind?

What is having it all? Is there a general limit or is it personalised? Is it an amount in money and assets? Does it measure friendships? I believe that it is none of these things, because in life you can never have it all because yesterdays ‘All’ is different from today’s. What if one day you were a singer in a bar dreaming of the top, and the next you were talent spotted and had a multi million pound contract. Would you’re expectations be the same? In short, no. Because having it all is somewhere above where we are, but it will always stay above where we are.

Whitney Houston once asked ‘Didn’t we almost have it all?’ There are times when it feels so close that in our minds we really do have it all. But there is always room for improvement. Right? Whitney concludes that ‘you’ll never love that way again’ so is there a peak when you can get close and never get that close again? I think so because we can’t go on chasing all the time, we do give up once we do our best, there are comebacks but when do they ever last? So when you get close, give it your all because if the ‘ride’ is good enough it’ll be ‘worth the fall.’

‘All’ is a very broad term, it cannot be distinguished in real terms but we know deep inside when we’re close, the inner sense of happiness, the warmth, a smile, a laugh and whole load of good memories. But when we feel the doubt we felt in the beginning, it’s not us having all and more; it’s the loss of something we had on the way. But it all can phase out like the seasons, like the spring it’s a time to ascend, like the summer a time to shine and for the rest I wish you… ‘All’ the best!