Imagine that everyone is born with a box of Legos, and life is recess. Some kids have bigger boxes of Legos than others but you only get to use your own box. Because there is a limited number of Legos in your box, once you build a castle there aren’t enough left to make a sailboat unless you tear the castle down. Well along with a limited amount of Legos you also have limited time (recess is short, remember?). So if you want to tear the castle down and build the sailboat, go ahead but you know that you’ll have less time to play with your creation than if you just stuck with the castle. Furthermore, you can see all of the things that the other kids are building with their Legos, so you might take some of your precious time to look at them and get ideas. Or you might use up most of your time wishing you could build whatever amazing Ferris wheel or dinosaur Suzy built but you don’t have enough Legos. Conversely, some kids only have a few Legos but they build super cool little robot-men and are so happy with them that they play and play and don’t give a hoot about the towers of Legos the other kids have.
So the moral of this story is that we all have limits in our lives, but if you strive to fulfill the potential of your own qualities then you will have way more fun being satisfied with what you have than wishing for more Legos.
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