Perhaps we just need to shift the way we think about desires and alter the way we treat them in our lives. But just because we can see gut instincts as snap decisions shouldn’t automatically mean that they are a bad thing. Wanting is nothing short of a gut instinct, an impulse perhaps.
Want, for want of a better word, is a naked desire, a thing that we have a passion to acquire or experience. None of us should ever worry about being viewed as unbecoming, which sounds like a phrase lifted directly from a Jane Austen novel, because wanting something is a good thing at its core.
Yet I believe it to be a fundamentally flawed phrase when applied to adult life. The phrase ‘I want doesn’t get’ was oft used on me as a child, trying to teach me to be less impulsive. There is nothing unnatural about wanting anything, yet throughout our lives, we have been conditioned to think that such thoughts are ugly and unbecoming. When was the last time you experienced the feeling of wanting, really wanting, something? To want is an emotional desire we all experience, from basic human needs, to heady thoughts of being a CEO.
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