“i get everything i want”
I think this sentence tends to confuse people and makes them think whoever is saying it is delusional or egotistic. It sounds arrogant at first and many tend to take it at face value - t’s impossible to literally always have gotten what you want since you were born. Materialistically, maybe. But not specific outcomes that depend on other people that you can’t control. It sounds spoiled.
I would say though that this sentence is actually pretty harmless and almost anyone can become someone this applies to. What I see in this sentence is:
- The person is realistic about what they want and what they can actually have. Through trial and error and good intuition, they’re always hitting the sweet spot where these overlap. Their desires and goals are attainable.
- The person is probably very organized, researches what’s needed for a specific outcome and will work for it and ask for what they need instead of waiting for it to happen randomly.
- They come prepared and make sure to raise their specific odds by recognizing that while the outcome is not in their control, some things leading to the outcome are, so they control what they can instead and know they tried their best.
- The sentence acts as a motivational thing, a self-fulfilling prophecy, and the longer they keep up the streak of meeting their goals and getting what they want, the more confident they are about the next thing, which helps make it happen.
- There tends to be a gratitude mindset and seeing the good in a lot of things, even losses and fails, which they often tend to ascribe positive qualities to - like when they didn’t get that job but then a better one comes along that fits what they want much better than the other one. So in the end, they did get what they wanted overall, just not the specific thing. That’s of course assuming they aren’t literally a spoiled, mega-rich person, just an average one.
I’d even say the sentence applies to me, even though I didn’t get the chips I wanted last evening at the supermarket and I will never get the (bio) parents I want and deserve. Because to me, it’s about bigger things than that; usually an overall arc in my life, or an area of it, a vibe, a measurable goal like passing an exam, something like that. Sometimes I wish for things and retrospectively am glad I didn’t get it, or got something else instead, because it actually works out better that way. I think that’s where the feeling comes from of “always getting what I want” even if there are some things I actually didn’t get. The experience of things just working out in my favor in the end, even if they seem bad in between. Sometimes it takes the retrospective or the bigger picture to see that.
That’s not to be one of those people that think “everything happens for a reason”. I get the sentiment, but it’s usually used in disgusting ways. There’s plenty bad that happened to me for no good reason, too.