You Can't Always Get What You Want

Here's a blog from back in '05...the beginning of the MySpace blog migration I promised. Short but sweet and definitely something that is timeless in its lesson. And, while I'm currently in one of those "not getting what I want" phases in life, despite the crap that is swirling around me in my toilet bowl of life (sorry, that's not a very nice mental picture now that I think about it), it's probably just what I need. Alright, now the mental picture just became worse and I'm even icked out. Apologies.
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So, I'm at one of my rentals yesterday doing some work (and it needs lots of it) and I'm listening to the radio as I sit in the stairway and paint. On comes The Stones. I confess I've never been much of a Stones fan so I've never really paid much attention to their lyrics or anything. But, sitting in the stairway painting - a task that appears not to have been done in somewhere around 15 years - I took a real listen.

What I came away with was...you can't always get what you want, but if you try real hard, you might just get what you need...or something relatively close to that. Hmm...profound. So many times I haven't gotten what I wanted; however, I've generally ended up with something that I looked back and said, "Ah, I get it now...what I got was actually what I needed as a human being at the time." Important lesson.

Case in point, I have 3 boys. What on earth I would ever do with icky ol' boys I wasn't sure. I desperately wanted a girl; sobbed each time I learned I was having a boy. Looking back, though, I find that I have no idea what I would have done with one if I had gotten one. I like girly things but I have no patience for the prissy, girly, I-have-to-have-these-shoes-to-go-with-this-purse-and-I-need-this-hair-thing-to-match-and.... business. I'm better with dirt and bugs and blue jeans and boots. Better yet, I realized that I retained the status of being the only female in the house; a position that relish.

No, you can't always get what you want. But, if you try real hard, you just might get what you need.