hmmm

Maybe there's a good reason you want it.

-- Alan Cohen

When you think about it, desire is a very personal thing. I don't mean the sexual kind of desire, but the feeling of wishing or wanting or longing for some thing or experience. Sometimes we assume that EVERYONE shares our desires ... for example, doesn't everyone want to work from home, make a lot of money, and drive a nice car?

Nope. I personally know more than a few people who expressly do not want any of the above. Yes ... truly!

What you want is unique to you. You are the only one with your particular combination of likes, dislikes, preferences, dreams, and goals. Don't take that for granted or diminish its importance. Perhaps the universe has a use for you and your particular gifts, and is harnessing your desire to entice you into being in the right place at the right time so you can do the right thing.

(case in point: One time I had a massive and irrepressible craving for Death by Chocolate ice cream, which is unusual for me, and I can only get it at one store in town. So feeling sort of sheepish, I traipsed over there. I immediately ran into not one but two people I had not seen for years.)

Want to try an experiment just for today? See how it feels to assume that your longings or desires are actually sacred. Not evidence or your inner greed or lust or envy, but holy markers along the path to your purpose for being here. You can always go back to assuming that desires are base drives to be overcome or transcended tomorrow if you want.

But be warned ... you just might find that it feels good to honor every part of you in this way. Try sitting with that feeling of 'wanting', making friends with it, getting to know it, welcoming it into your awareness. Maybe even loving it.

I don't think it is a very big jump to link desire with life force itself ... the only time we stop wanting something (like oxygen, for instance ...) is when we are dead! actually, I don't know for sure if it even stops then, but that's as far as I can track it for now.

Maybe there is a good reason why you want it, and maybe you will never know what that reason is. But it might be kind of fun to speculate, and to let yourself off the hook every once in a while ...