In between "Desire" and "Happiness"

The satisfaction that drives and fuels desires of you and I, is that what happiness is? If yes, then is it wrong to desire and want something for our own, after all, its happiness we are talking about.

Let’s take this in retrospect. You and I, we both know that we want something most of the times, if not always. Sometimes it is something materialistic that is tangible; otherwise it is something more intangible, like love or attention. But altogether, they simply lead to a single conclusion of satisfaction, which we associate with happiness. This could be something permanent, it could even be volatile and still we try make do.

All that is fine you know. Such a system and nature where objectivity is defined and understood clearly, actions driven with clear goals in the mind works just fine. There is nothing to complain against it in fact. But, how much is too much? I am not talking about greed, no. I am simply being thoughtful about the repercussions and ripples that our individual actions stir among the people we are close with, and the environment we live in.

Our individual beliefs, desires, dreams and all that we hold dear to our own, more often than not lead to actions that we undertake with very little consideration. We might end up hurting someone we love or care for, and we might not even realize that because subconsciously, we overlook the ideas and thoughts of making do with such empathy as our priorities lie somewhere else. It will be a farce to claim that it is bad and should not be practiced. Those actions are motivated by good desires fueled well within our individual grasps of effort driven by ambition. Such actions should not be done away with at all.

But, that is not to say that we should act upon our whims and basic drive to achieve that which we wish to. I might not make a very strong case upon anyone if I don't go about it any other way. So let me take up a little grim of an approach.

Let me approach it by means of death.

It won’t be much to state that death in itself isn’t something we might essentially fear. However, the idea of the way we might come to never wake up again in this life is what makes our blood run cold. All our actions, our words and thoughts, everything will jot up to one moment. That moment that might just be anytime, anywhere, always unknown.

Ask yourself this;

I do not condone actions taken under ambition and desire. In fact, I very much admire and encourage them. That being said, it is very easy to get carried away in the heat of our self driven emotions. It might just never hurt to broaden this horizon by bringing into consideration, the emotions of the people around us. Maybe it wouldn’t be so bad. At least we can have face against that unknown darkness knowing that we were a little kinder and better in our final moments, whenever may it catch up to us.

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