WANT IT-NEED IT-GOTTA HAVE IT-GONNA HAVE IT

I guess more people are feeling that if they want something, it has got to be a good thing. Not only that, but if they want it, they don't care who knows it.

The selfish mantra likely comes out as: I want it, need it, gotta have it, am gonna have it...no matter what. Probably they feel they 'deserve' it. After all, 'life is short', 'unfair', 'everyone is doing it' and 'you only live once'. Any or all of these are applied to the newest thing someone decides is the latest thing they must have.

In my opinion, this litany is today's self expression, much of it in petulant, pouting or annoyed at any delay in getting what is wanted. I always feel sorry for the person the demands are being made of. Not only is it too much to ask, but it seems that everywhere you go someone is going on about something they feel is wrong, unjust, unfair and which they had done to them by someone else. 

This is especially true when someone, in a public place, seems to want everyone within hearing range to hear whatever they are talking about today. They seem to neither know, nor care about how trite, banal and commonplace they sound. Sometimes, I wonder if they would stop themselves, if they  could hear themselves and how lame they sound. Then again, maybe this wouldn't matter as long as there is an audience.

Maybe, this is the modern version of life as a play, but so emotional that we are maybe supposed to 'feel' everyone's pain and participate in whatever 'drama' they are dumping out today. Cathartic as it may be for them, I think ultimately, it will make us want to be less involved, not more involved with people who need to 'act out' the soap opera of their lives and force it upon us.

Let's face it, when we tell someone that what they are saying is 'too much information', we are trying to get them to stop telling us more than we ever need or want to know about something. We are doing our best to tell others that we really don't want to know any more of the details. In fact, we are sometimes close to 'begging' them to 'spare us the details' and to please, drop the subject. It seems this is too much to ask today and a MEGO (my eyes glaze over) tuning out becomes our last resort.

While I love the original, the unusual and the interesting, not everyone does. Nor does everyone within earshot want to know everything on your Wish List; what you have decided you want, think you need, have decided you must have, and that you have determined to get, whatever it takes.

As an Adult, the temper tantrum is a lot to put up with, even from a young child; from another Adult, it is downright ridiculous and intolerable.