54% of Britons want to live abroad (Institute for Policy Research), but nearly half that do emigrate come home. Maybe some of this is to do with doing before thinking, but doesn’t it show how human desire is a contradictory little monkey? We want what we can’t have and tire of it when we get it.
Julian Barnes’ makes this point in the last chapter of ‘The History of the World in 10 and a Half Chapters’. His version of heaven is a place where all your hearts desires are granted, but after a few millenia, sheer boredom leads you to choose to be deleted from existence.
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