Need, Not Want
“To burn with desire and keep quiet about it is the greatest punishment we can bring on ourselves.”
When you think of desire, what crosses your mind? Is it love? Or perhaps you think of large sums of money? Or is it perhaps sex? Does expensive luxurious items cross your mind? Or perhaps a nice calm evening somewhere far away from everybody, say, a beach in Cancun? Does desire mean to you to want something, or to need it? Can you tell the difference between the two? Or is it a blurred line when it comes to desiring things in a formal fashion? Do you crave more than you want? Do you need more than you crave? Or perhaps you crave to want to need it all the time, continuously, non-stop?
Are you familiar with addictions? Do you believe you can hunger for something so much that you can get lost in it? That you make your life all about that certain thing and it eventually revolves around everything that you do? Is it a need deep inside you that you keep to yourself? Or perhaps you trust someone enough to let them know what that desire is about? Maybe it's your little secret between that other individual and yourself. A thing that only that person and you carry in your minds, a private secret, a private affair?
This little savory treat keeps you up at night, doesn't it? Or do you have it all under control? Does it scream at the top of its lung, crying for you to embrace it again?
Can you tell when you've had enough? Or is it something that you can never have enough of? Does it make you feel guilty when you lose yourself in it or do you enjoy the feeling of guilt that takes over your mind and body? Do you understand what kind of hunger this is, that pokes at your insides, a crave that needs to be satisfied, a thirst that needs to be quenched--that if it is not quenched it will only hurt, and poke and prod at you until your mind loses its grip?
How do you know when enough is enough? Do you set limits upon yourself, a focus, a way to measure it so you don't go off the deep end? Or do you rely on yourself to know when to stop?
Or perhaps you rely on someone else to help you, to give you a hand. To measure when you've had enough?
Under what circumstances do you stop?
Those are the questions you should ask yourself next time you want to fulfill that desire.
Are you familiar with addictions? Do you believe you can hunger for something so much that you can get lost in it? That you make your life all about that certain thing and it eventually revolves around everything that you do? Is it a need deep inside you that you keep to yourself? Or perhaps you trust someone enough to let them know what that desire is about? Maybe it's your little secret between that other individual and yourself. A thing that only that person and you carry in your minds, a private secret, a private affair?
This little savory treat keeps you up at night, doesn't it? Or do you have it all under control? Does it scream at the top of its lung, crying for you to embrace it again?
Can you tell when you've had enough? Or is it something that you can never have enough of? Does it make you feel guilty when you lose yourself in it or do you enjoy the feeling of guilt that takes over your mind and body? Do you understand what kind of hunger this is, that pokes at your insides, a crave that needs to be satisfied, a thirst that needs to be quenched--that if it is not quenched it will only hurt, and poke and prod at you until your mind loses its grip?
How do you know when enough is enough? Do you set limits upon yourself, a focus, a way to measure it so you don't go off the deep end? Or do you rely on yourself to know when to stop?
Or perhaps you rely on someone else to help you, to give you a hand. To measure when you've had enough?
Under what circumstances do you stop?
Those are the questions you should ask yourself next time you want to fulfill that desire.