Not Wanting and Not Being Able

Author: Dexin Kong
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0008-3831-5725
Structured and refined with assistance from ChatGPT
AI Automatic Translation (Unreviewed)

Discussion

In life, we often encounter things that feel powerless to change.

Most of them can roughly be divided into two kinds:

“not wanting to.” and “not being able to.”

But why “not wanting to”?

Some people say:

“The cost is too high. It’s not worth it.”

Others say:

“The risk is high, the return is low. There’s no point.”

And some simply say:

“None of my business.”

So many things begin as “not wanting to,” and slowly become “not being able to.”

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