“Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.”

Getting what you want all the time seems like the most ideal way to live. There’s nothing that will ever disappoint you.

However, according to this quote by Dalai Lama, sometimes not getting what we want is luck. Sometimes, that helps make the moments we do get what we want much sweeter. We appreciate the blessings we do have a bit more. Perhaps what we wanted could have led us down the wrong path. Or maybe, what we wanted is not best for us now but better at another point in time. So next time we don’t get what we want, let’s consider these possibilities. We just don’t know what lies on the other side of all our desires.