who's got the claws in you?

We all want things. We want to have that perfect body, to have that perfect boyfriend and overall amazing life. We want these things because we want happiness and we think these things will give us it. Sometimes we want something so bad, so obsessively, that it alters our lives. Our lives are shaped by our desires. Everything we do is motivated by a strong desire. However indirect the particular thing we are doing is from what we actually want, it can still easily be traced back to a strong desire of ours.
Most of us understand this pretty easily with some directed thought, but have you ever thought about what would happen if we got something before we actually wanted it? Would we still, in the end, want it? Or would we need to lose in order to realize the desire we have for it? Or can we just simply not want it at all because we were never given the chance to envy it in someone else before ourselves?
For example, let's say we were born, or rather came of age, with a perfect body. Everything evenly proportioned and envied by others, but we weren't yet old enough and well versed in society to want it and neither were our peers and friends. We looked at our body with a bit of disgust and acceptance, and our friends didn't notice the perfectness of it, only the difference between theirs and ours, so instead of praising God for the gift he gave us, we either resented it's uniqueness or just merely accepted it and didn't give it a second thought.
Now that's kind of a poor example because later on in life we would most likely realize how much we have been blessed with and be cocky about it, or we would lose it and curse our younger self for letting it get away pretty much due to the fact that everything is very centered around personal image and vanity now. But what if we kept it, and didn't ever realize what a gift we had? Wouldn't that be weird? When you think about that, it makes you wonder whether or not you have an unnoticed and ungratified blessing? And, chances are, you probably do. We all probably have some talent that is not receiving the gratification it deserves, irregardless of whether or not others recognize it in us.