Anything you want

“You can have anything you want…….”    

When Aurora was in the 4th grade one night she asked, at dinner, “Are we rich?”  Her mom immediately responded, “No, we’re comfortable.”   There was silence for a moment and then, as we’d all like to do when our questions are answered with ambivalence, Aurora looked at her mom and asked, “What does that mean?”  To which her mom immediately responded, “It means you can have anything you want, not everything you want.”