Is this what I desired?
Is this what I desired? This question haunts us throughout our lives. Most of us live in the hallucination that we generally get what we aim for. But do we really get what we aim for is the million dollar question.
When we talk about desire, we are talking about the obsession we have for certain things that we believe we cannot live without. We are unable to look beyond this point.
This excessive obsession prompts us to approach the object of desire in a foolish manner. We lose ourselves in the pleasure of owning this object. Then we jealously guard it and want to keep it with us forever. Little do we realize that in our foolishness we are actually paving the way to lose this cherished object!
Sometimes we foolishly keep yearning for certain things in life without understanding that life gives us what we deserve not what we desire. Now this deserving and desiring should be complimentary, otherwise life can be very painful. This can happen only if we have a powerful intellect guiding our every action. It is the intellect that determines what we deserve, exactly like a father assessing his erring son. But the mind, like the mother, pampers us and fools us into thinking that we deserve the moon.
Most of us live our entire lifetimes blaming the whole world when we do not get what we desire thinking that we have been denied what is rightfully ours. The mistake here is very simple if we were to objectively look at it. We have not analyzed ourselves well enough to know what we actually deserve. If we could do this, we would know what to expect from ourselves and there would be no unhappiness in this world. After all the root cause of all unhappiness is “EXPECTATIONS NOT MET”.
