The world is vast, and we continue to perceive things as we visualize them, spend time with them, or experience them. Just remember, in the early ages, what the maximum desire or happiness was? To go outside and play with mud, along with friends. One day, one of our friends shared that he had a toy, a small gaming phone with a ring game. Our circle, which was limited to playing with mud with friends, just expanded to a small gaming phone. We started to water this desire, requested our fathers to buy us the same phone, and finally, we got it. The love and importance of the gaming phone continued till we were exposed to a remote car. That’s all the place and importance of the gaming phone just died.
The cycle continued, we desired things, got them, and reached the point where we are now. Still now, we believe that if we find “something”, we will have everything. This fight between desire and accomplishment continues. We see multiple things that others have and dream of, and work to get them. Many of the time we successfully achieve what we want to, and many of the time this is not the case. The time we achieve something successfully, we are again drawn to something that is new, or we can call it a new desire. The desires usually move periodically, like dreaming of having a cycle, then a motorcycle, then a car, then a better car, and so on. The desires that are not fulfilled become unrequited and settle somewhere as an ache.
Although if we think for a second that a desire that is not achievable, if it results in achievement, then its importance will only last for a few times, and we will move further with the same attitude, like looking for another desire. This thinking is not successful, for in case we have a desire that becomes an ache. There is no specific explanation for such an attitude from humans, but somewhere, the reasons involve an inability to digest rejection, failure, and the inability to see that other people have access to that desire. This is linked with jealousy. The inability to fulfill a desire is not a big regret, but seeing other people having access to the thing that you desire is considered more painful for the human mind.
This is a psychological disorder most common in societies where persons are compared, and the individual’s existence is compromised. Such societies have materialistic standards for success, resulting in personality damage. How strange is this to expect a doctor to be proficient in law? The boy who is a great writer is asked to compete with a boy who is a great athlete? The society judges people on their wealth, cars, and status rather than their moral values. In such societies, the ultimate goal of education is to become wealthy enough to dominate the other people residing in the society.
To end such attitudes and acts of desire, society must educate individuals to accept and respect everyone, to believe that every individual has their existence with different flaws and strengths. The wealth and access to different luxuries are a division of nature to keep the system going. As we are exposed to more and more things, our sense of desire will continue to expand, but whatever happens, the sense of individuality, respect, and wisdom must flourish without any discrimination.
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