Love what you have THEN have what you love.

Hello again dearest readers, I wanted to thank you all for your answers to my question the other day. I was very happy to find the wealth of different opinions and ideas that people had. Although I can't say I shared everybody's views, I was so happy that people answered! Cookies for you all!! My star bakers (that's what I'm calling you guys) were Sue Oldrieve and Lisa Miller, both of you hit the metaphorical nail on it's proverbial head! I will personally ensure you get your cookies! ("You'll get your Cookies" I quite like that as a new idiom...)
Anyway, my point is to give you all my own views on the matter.
I can make this as personal as I want, mostly because I am the guardian of the cookies and normal rules don't apply to me.
I believe that, in my case at least, I must learn to love what I have. Now I can't speak for all of you, but I have a sneaking suspicion that this applies to others, not just me. I think I expect to much of both myself and of the world around me. Too often I aim too high or don't aim at all due to fear things will not be good enough. I need to learn to love each thing, each person and each experience based on what they are, not on my hopes and fears. Like a child, no one bases their love of their child on what their child is like, people love their children regardless of their victories or problems. All life would be better enjoyed this way, otherwise I set myself up to fail, and no amount of searching will find me perfection. I need to learn acceptance because by accepting both the good and bad in life I will be able to better deal with my achievements and loses. Without this, my expectation will always get in the way of my happiness. However, once I have learnt how to accept and appreciate things for what they are, there is nothing to stop me enjoying whatever else I aim for.
I feel I haven't done a very good job of explaining my thoughts on this, so to sum it up, my personal opinion is you need to love what you have before you can have what you love.
Final note, kudos to Dad whose opinion was the funniest!