It avoids disappointment, sure, but the 'striving' can be more fulfilling than the 'obtaining'. If you are striving to be without want, isn't that still a type of 'want'?
Well then you have to decide whether it is a worthwhile challenge, or whether, as you're going to go to that much effort, it might not be better to get the girl, the job, and the loft in Manhattan. On the other hand, how hard is not wanting that?
Of course it's all about you, who else would it be about?
No, he's wrong, that's the dispensable part of happiness. The indispensable part is to be without want of things.
ReplyDeleteIt avoids disappointment, sure, but the 'striving' can be more fulfilling than the 'obtaining'. If you are striving to be without want, isn't that still a type of 'want'?
ReplyDeleteThere is no point trying not to try, but not trying isn't difficult.
ReplyDeleteYou make not wanting sound like an immense challenge.
Of course it's a challenge.
ReplyDeleteNot for you, perhaps, but you know it's not all about you.
Well then you have to decide whether it is a worthwhile challenge, or whether, as you're going to go to that much effort, it might not be better to get the girl, the job, and the loft in Manhattan. On the other hand, how hard is not wanting that?
ReplyDeleteOf course it's all about you, who else would it be about?