we don’t want much of what we get

I want what I want by mistake, I don't want what I get - Nobel laureate world poet Rabindranath Tagore (যাহা চাই তাহা ভুল করে চাই, যাহা পাই তাহা চাই না - নোবেলজয়ী বিশ্বকবি রবীন্দ্রনাথ ঠাকুর

The world poet Rabindranath Tagore has mentioned in one of his poems that we want what we want by mistake and we do not want what we get. We get a lot at the individual level that we never expect. Many times it seems that we got it wrong. But the thing we hope to get the most is the thing we never get.

Everyone has some dreams in their heart in our path. And everyone wants those dreams to come true. Just as a lover wants his love to be successful, a newly graduated job seeker wants a good job! Similarly, everyone wants his heart's desire to be fulfilled!

But to be honest, reality is the complete opposite of our dreams. Fulfilling dreams does not become as easy as we want to get everything. We are never prepared for what happens in our lives. It seems that everything is going wrong in our lives. For which we were never ready. Most of the things that happen in our lives seem to be happening in our lives by mistake.

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In other words, what we want in life is not fulfilled in most cases. That's normal. As such to be honest, I never imagined that I would get a job in the teaching profession! But after completing the honors degree, when I got a good offer in an educational project, I have been working in the teaching profession since then. But I never thought that I would engage in the teaching profession. Honestly, what we want is never according to our plan. We often get a lot of things we never wanted.

So maybe the poet says, we don't get what we want, we get what we get wrong.