15 quote analysis

“we dream of the perfect wave, the perfect job, the perfect house, the perfect love, and when we get there, we dream of something else, and the journey goes on.” Rob Machado, born 1973, professional surfer

People always have an urge of wanting something more, it’s something everyone has. You’re never pleased with what you have, and always need to have more. This quote from Rob Machado exactly explains that. Even if you have your dream job, dream house, dream wife, dream life, there is something in you that feels like you need more, go on new and exciting journeys, keep life interesting and busy. I personally think this is because people have to deal with boredom, and whenever you have this, you try to fill it with new and exciting things. Even having a perfect house or winning a race isn’t good enough. You want more houses, or win more races. I also think people do this because of interests, we change interests fairly quickly, it also relates to boredom, because one day you’ll have this interest, but the next day you’re bored of it, and need a new interest. These new ideas and interests we’re all chasing after each and everyday, just ads a new and exciting journey to your life, it gives you experience.

I myself have a problem with boredom, which is why I try new things and I love going on new adventures. But I also have a problem with finding the limit, or stopping myself from wanting more. A good example for this is cliff jumping. I started off young. I jumped off my first cliff when I was 11, in Majorca. This cliff was around 4 meters, which for an 11 year old would be too high, so my mother thought. My father always told me, try whatever you want, you’re the one that has to deal with the consequences. So I stood there, in front of this massive cliff, ready to jump. I took a deep breath, and went for it. At the time this was very impressive, until I started diving off it, head first. later in that vacation, I didn’t 4 meters was that impressive anymore, so I started looking for bigger cliffs, which I found, it was 7 meters, and I jumped off it not knowing after I wanted to jump from even higher, which is exactly the example I’m trying to give. There is this urge that wanted to do more, to jump from higher. I wanted to find a new journey, something more exciting and new. This is definitely not the strongest example, this urge can stretch out to way bigger things in life, such as getting betters cars, wanting a higher payed job, wanting to take your relationship to the next level. This urge we have of always dreaming of more, this can be seen negative and positive. Such as a dream of wanting more cars, or a bigger house, it doesn’t hurt anyone, or puts anyone in danger. But me wanting to jump from higher cliffs could be a danger for my health, I could wind up being seriously injured from wanting to jump from too high cliffs which I am not trained for. I do not know how to find a limit, because I keep dreaming of jumping from higher cliffs. Recently in Croatia, I wanted to jump off a bridge into a deep river, this bridge was about 15 meters high, my mother of course didn’t allow me, but if I was, I could have been seriously injured or if I landed very wrong, even died. This is a clear example of a negative urge I keep wanting to do more off. I’m not saying dreaming about bigger and more exciting things is bad, I think it’s healthy, it gives you experience.