A Blog named Desire

The mind can never understand what the heart wants. The heart can never accept what the mind wants.The root of the whole problem obviously lies in wanting something, namely, 'desire'. It is the cause and effect of all of one's problems. The only possible ways a person can deal with desire is one, he can ignore all his desires, and choose an ascetic life dedicated to finding a deeper meaning. This approach is suicidal, since it itself is motivated by the desire to achieve meaning in life. The second approach is what most people practice today, i.e trying to achieve the right balance, making the right choices of which desire to pursue and which to dismiss as the unworthy ones. Man has been trying this approach for so long with barely any success that it can be dismissed as a failed experiment. Every culture, religion, tribe, group, society, cult, belief system that has flashed across the annals of history is a conspicuous pointer to the utter failure of this approach. Each one of them had their own way of explaining the world around them and providing the path to happiness and true satisfaction, but the fact that there are so many by itself proves that there will never be one truth that can satisfy each and every human being.

Even science, which makes a commendable career out of pulling the proverbial rabbit out of the hat and blasting all of man's myths to pieces, draws a blank when it comes to the big eternal question, "Why am I here?". The last approach to dealing with desire is simple but unacceptable to most of mankind, which is simply to take what one craves. A small section of the world follows this routine, by getting what they desire by 'hook or crook'. Even here, the impossibility of getting everything one wants is such a big stumbling block that at the end of the day, even these guys must helplessly join the fellows on the second path.

Then what is, the way to deal with wanting so much in life? The pursuit of desires is just the pursuit of happiness, disguised and undiscovered. All we want is to be happy. When a person we love does something which we don't consider to be in their best interests, some of us just shrug and say, "If you're happy, I'm happy". Note how it ends with our happiness. The pursuit of happiness is the only real, absolute truth of life. The only question we need to answer is, what is happiness? Why does man feel this eternal need to be happy? This clearly seperates us from all other species on this planet, since all our actions are motivated 'only' by this reasoning. The day we stop wanting to be happy, is the day mankind will have truly ceased to exist. For either we will have found the true secret of life and thus moved up in our own eyes, or we will have given up happiness as a wild goose chase and decided to pull the plug on the entire species. I only wish I could be there when that dilemma is solved.