If we gain something then we have been without it in the past and we will be without it in the future.
It means that at the time of acquiring it other people will not have it.
We have 2 options here.
1) Either it is needed by us at this “moment” and we didn’t need it before and we won’t need it in the future – a conditional requirement.
OR
2) We must accept that not only is it possible to live without it, but people are doing so as we acquire it.
If it is 2 then why do we acquire it? This has been my instinctive problem with acquiring things and I remember feeling it very strongly lying in bed with my first girlfriend and listening to someone outside at the university crying. Why I thought do I need this happiness when I have been without it before and there are people right now who do not have it. It can’t be very important.
I realise that it is very hard to express ideas which are alien to the culture and language that you are brought up in. Watching the MIT lectures has given me confidence and brought together a whole net of ideas which I have struggled with in the darkness since my youth.
The lesson here is to keep going even when everyone doubts you and you even doubt yourself!
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