Desire

Desire can fool us into thinking what is right for us when in fact we often do not know. For example, people will say they want to be married only to later find out it wasn't to the right person or that living with someone wasn't really for them. We often discover what is right for us only in retrospect but the experience brands us so at least we have learned something.

Being open to receiving rather than desiring is likely a better state. We live every day working on the self and invite experiences and the right people to come our way. We have thus substituted a search for being content in the moment and allow life in all its messiness to come to us bringing gifts along with its invariably negative surprises.

Those who have lived long enough know that much of what we wanted did not come to fruition or, if it did, it did not meet expectation. Conversely, some things came along we had not expected and in the long run made us better people.

Today I desire nothing but simply work on being open.