The purpose of desire
As we get closer and closer to the new year, I’ve been thinking a lot about New Year’s resolutions and goals, and desires. We all have desires. It is human nature to desire, to have never ending desires in fact. Once one desire is satisfied, our mind finds another desire to lock onto, another goal to move towards. This is both good and bad. In some instances, the way we can relate to desires might prevent us from feeling satisfied and fulfilled by the present moment, the only moment that truly exists. When we become addicted to living for the next thing, convinced that if we only had that next thing, or reached that next goal, we’d be happy, the happiness remains always out of our grasp. In this case, we can begin to associate goals and dreams with a lack or scarcity mindset (if I desire something it must mean I’m missing something in my life). Goals and desires aren’t bad, as long as those goals/desires don’t reinforce the lack/scarcity mindset. Wanting something else does not necessarily mean that something is missing from your life, it simply means that you want something in addition to what you already have, or you want an achievement in addition to what you already have. Gratitude for all the abundance that’s already in your life is crucial along the road to achieving more.
Sometimes, what can happen is that we have desires which we dismiss, goals or dreams which we feel are unrealistic, or too unattainable. I know I’ve had times in my life where I doubted whether I could ever achieve my dreams, or whether my dreams were even worth dreaming because of how big and unattainable they felt. And then I listened to an interview on law of attraction and spirituality, where the speaker declared that our desires are there for a reason. The fact that we desire something means we have the ability to achieve or obtain it. If what you seek is seeking you, that achievement or thing might even want you so to speak. This concept gave me great comfort. It helped relieve me from the burden of judging my dreams, and allowed me to accept them. Not only that but it allowed me to believe that they were achievable, that simply by the fact that I desired them, meant that I was capable of achieving them. I know that reaching goals takes so much more than just belief, but belief is half the battle. So believe that you can achieve your goals and desires, that they were meant for you to obtain, and then set out to figure out how exactly to do it.