You can’t have it all

January 11, 2011 | Filed Under Maxims 

Maxim #17: You can’t have it all
Explanation: As any alcoholic knows, you can’t have both the fun of drunkenness and the freedom of sobriety. Our society gives us the fatal idea that not only are we are entitled to everything, but we can have everything too. As they say, “You can’t have your cake and eat it too.” Reason makes it clear that there have to be limitations, and that have some things rule out other things. If you eat your cake, you no longer have it. The devastating myth that sets so many people down the wrong path is that you can sustain contradictions over a lifetime. Throughout life we are faced with many decisions that shape who we are, and the longer you don’t face the real world consequences of your decisions, the bigger you’ll fall when the contradictions manifest themselves in reality.

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