Desire creates pain in our lives.
But living a life void of desire is equally, if not more, painful.
The Paradoxes of Desire: 🧵
Desire creates pain in our lives.
But living a life void of desire is equally, if not more, painful.
The more intensely you desire something, the harder it seems to attain.
If you don’t desire something with enough intensity, you never do what's required to attain it.
We desire comfort, security, and safety.
But nothing we desire can be obtained without risk.
We desire two separate things that can't co-exist.
For example ⏤
You desire to be free to do whatever you want without accountability.
But you also desire to be trusted by others.
We actively desire things that can never happen.
Regret is an unfulfillable desire.
It focuses the energy of desire on changing something in the past.
What we want changes over time.
But our deepest desires - to be loved, to be validated - never change.
We know what's best for us, but don't want it.
We know what's bad for us, and are consumed by it.
Many desires are self-destructive in nature.
Whatever we have is not what we want.
But when we get something different, we quickly start looking for something better.
It's okay for us to desire something.
But we get bothered when someone else wants the same thing.
A prime example ⏤
You desperately want to be liked but are annoyed by someone else's attempt to achieve the same end.
When two desires are in conflict with one another we tend to abandon them both.
We work hard to fulfill a desire.
Only to feel like it wasn't worth it when we get it.
We spend our lives dreaming about things we desire.
But we take no action to pursue them.
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h/t @sahilbloom for inspiring me to recognize the paradoxes all around us.
Here's his banger of a thread:
https://t.co/p5T2DDvWev
The most powerful paradoxes of life:
— Sahil Bloom (@SahilBloom) November 21, 2021
