Wanting is structural. What you want is content and the content is interchangeable. In other words it doesn't matter what you want. If you get it you will just switch your wanting to something else. So then why are we upset if we don't get what we want? Is it because we think that we will be happy when we get what we want? Is that not a delusion?
Infact we prefer to wanting to having. Once we have something, we no longer want it and we shift our wanting to something else. So while I am not saying we should not want, thats impossible. I believe we should stop thinking that getting what we want will make us happy because it does not. So then its alright to want and not have because having is not going to change my state. Thinking it does makes me unhappy or makes me to wait to be happy till I get what I want and then I shift to wanting something else. So pursue my wants like its a game, doesn't really matter whether I get what I want or not but because it is fun to pursue my wants. That way life is fun.
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So the greate Indian blessing "Hope you get what you want" is actually a curse. I knew those oldies were wiser than they let on!!!
Wanting is not the problem. Infact is impossible not to want. So trying to get rid of want is wanting too. Better to accept it and then realize getting what you want will not make you happy.
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