Choosing Friends and Setting Priorities

During my large amounts of alone time the last couple of weeks, I have been watching lots of reruns on Veronica Mars, one of my favorite tv shows ever, which I was very sad they canceled after only 3 seasons. Anyway, the subject of this note is a line from Veronica Mars and is one of the many quotes that has stuck out in my mind lately.

We all have things we long for and voids in our heart we seek to fill. And sometimes we get so caught up in finding these things that we take the first thing that comes our way and lose focus of what it is we really are longing for. We may say to ourselves that we will spend time with this not-so-great thing until something better comes along. But we may soon find ourselves so caught up in this intermediate thing that when something better comes along we don't realize it, or if we find something better, we realize that pursuing it, thus leaving behind and being unfair to the thing we used to just pass the time. Some people don't even recognize the difference between what is good and not good. Is it better to be oblivious to that and probably be more content with life or to know what is good for you but don't/can't have?

Then there's this other quote to live "like you were dying", which to me means not to hold back anything. You only get one life so you better make the most of it. Maybe it's just my interpretation but making the most of life means doing what seems fun right away - not waiting around for anything or anyone.

So is it better to have something not good than to have nothing? Does having something not good instead of nothing diminish the chances of finding something good later on? Does one or the other cause one to lower his/her standards and possibly lead to settling for something not good?