Humanities Homework: Into the Woods Blog Post 2

“Wishes may bring problems such that you regret them. Better that, though, than to never get them.”  Each character in Into the Woods wishes for something more than once, they spend a lot of time in the woods finding or fulfilling their wish.  A few of them though, come to realize that what they had wished and desired for wasn’t what they really wanted.  For example, the princes had spent time chasing down Rapunzel and Cinderella and after they win their girl they get bored and decide that it’s time to chase down another.  For them, it was only about the chase and not the actual wish, but they never regretted winning the girl.  They just learned that something else was out there that they wanted or needed to have more.  This also happens with Cinderella.  She wanted to live the life of a princess until she became one.  A life she wished for all her life had suddenly become something she wished to take back, she came to the realization that her old life wasn’t all that bad.
I think that this is something many of us do, it’s human nature.  We want something so bad and think that it is all we need to satisfy our needs or be happy; only to find that we wasted our time on something that wasn’t as important as we thought.  The phrase says, such that you regret them, better that, though than to never get them.  Many things we want in life usually end up being something we realize we don’t need.  But I think it is better to have experienced it and figure out that there is something better out there than to sit around and wish that you would have gone for it.  This phrase teaches us to appreciate what we already have.  It is better to experience and learn to move on than to sit and waste time wishing you could’ve done it.