The Want Back!

Why, hello there.

Has this ever happened to you?

Bob: Wow, I'm so full. I couldn't eat another slice of pizza!
Fred: Can I have the rest?
Bob: Sure, take as many as you want!
[Fred starts to eat pizza]
Bob: Hmmm.... actually, never mind. I'm still hungry. I think I WANT my pizza BACK.
Fred: :S

This social situation actually happens to me once. Or twice. Or a couple times. Or a lot. It's just something about our brains, that even when we don't really want something anymore, when we see someone else have it and enjoy it, we want it back! This is what I call "The Want Back". You know you don't really want it, whatever it is, but you just don't like seeing somebody else enjoy it. It's like, "Stop enjoying that! I enjoyed that already!" Maybe there's a little jealousy, a little envy. But you had it already, you decided that you are finished with it. Why do you want it back? You aren't going to enjoy it, you just don't want someone else to enjoy it. YOU are taking away someone else's enjoyment! And even once you get it back, you are satisfied for a moment, and then, "Seriously, I don't need this." I think that's the selfish part of us humans that doesn't like seeing other people enjoy things. Are we really that self-centered inside? I have trouble with this too. We try to think about others, but it's stuff like this that really sets us back from being better people. I know it's hard, but I think sometimes you just gotta let it go. You don't want it, you don't need it, just let someone else have it and enjoy it! Be a people person! ;D