To Want or Not to Want? Is Wanting Wanted?

To want or not to want, that IS still an important question, isn’t it? The data: We’re addicted to just about everything. Yes, that’s data. I get bored listing all the things we’re hooked on around here. Alcohol, prescription drugs, old school drugs, shopping, porn, fast food and distraction, and those are just the A-list addictions!

We live in a system that manipulates us into believing we need something to be happy enough, sexy enough, safe enough or enough enough. The system profits selling us more than enough and we wind up in juuuust enough debt to have to keep working at jobs we hate.

At the same time the Corporatocracy teaches us wanting is good, that consumption is a sign of success, that to acquire bling and overindulge is the definition of personal power. The ruling ethic is take ‘til it hurts. If you don’t believe me, ask Donald Trump.

This clumsy seeking, however, ultimately turns out to be unsatisfying, is the real “gateway drug” and leads to B-list addictions like; believing the illusion of security, needing ruthless power over others and trading your soul for profit. What starts out as ironic turns tragic though when you realize that joy, peace, connection and love are always present and freely available to feed your soul.

So is wanting wanting?

Let’s look at what (a wise other says) happens when you want what You want:

1. You are often nervous and anxious because life may not cooperate with your plans.

2. You are willing to sacrifice whatever it takes to get what you want, and this may include your integrity.

3. You are usually scheming in some way to win your next victory.

4. You are either in a battle or recovering from one.

5. You are unable to rest quietly when you need to.

6. You are easily angered when someone or something gets in your way.

7. You are forever driven to want something else.

8. You are against anyone else who also wants what you want.

9. You are certain that what you have is who you are.

10. You are always trying to convince yourself that you got what you want.

Now carefully consider the following when you want what Life wants:

1. You are never disappointed with what happens.

2. You are always in the right place at the right time.

3. You are quietly confident no matter what the circumstances.

4. You are out of the reach of anger and anxiety.

5. You are awake and sensitive to your surroundings.

6. You are free of ever feeling as though you’ve missed out.

7. You are never thrown for a loss.

8. You are in total command of events.

9. You are mentally quiet.

10. You are eternally grateful.

Always remember the following. If any want is the source of anxiety or sorrow, that want is yours and not Life’s. If the want has pain, it is in vain. To let Real Life flood in, pull yourself out of the flood of self-wants that promise a future pleasure but only deliver a present pain.

Or as I like to say it, “Savor Don’t Crave”.

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Gratefully abundant,

Jan