desire

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Ms. American Pie

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The words rung into the air suddenly. It frightened her. She was scared to ask the man singing beside her. In a past life the  fear would've drove her against it. She would instead live her entire  life not knowing the answer to the question.

But today things were different. She...

Abe's Blog
Heat

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Broke my streak this week because one evening I began watching the film Heat , which  therealbrandonwilson once vouched for. I wasn't expecting such a long movie. I only got halfway through and it was my  bedtime . The second half would need...

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the only thing that's real

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Always, all that is required is a  desire .
For if you have that, then everything else becomes secondary.

pain ,  fear ,  ostracism , they all become necessary but bareable payments for the only thing that's real.

80 years if you're lucky. 100 if you're blessed.
At the end you'll be dying...

Abe's Blog
curiosity + consistency > anything-else

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curiosity + consistency is probably all you need.

Unless you're looking to be a world changer .

But there are very few world changers amongst us. And the desire to change "the world" is something we learned on the way. Maybe it was an icky lesson at first so we pretended that...

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A gift card

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For the first time since that chance entry into that  bookstore years ago, she felt alive for the first time  today .

She wanted to wear something, deliberately, when going to the store. And all she wanted to do was go to the store. It was not a chore... something she...

Know as reply to .

Abraham Kim
desire
Know. What you want.

So you don't need to feel tired all the time from doing something you think you want to do but don't.

Be willing to be wrong. So that when things don't feel right you don't need to make up stories for everything being okay. You can actually...
contentment without condition
If it is you that can create the conditions for your happiness (if x happens, then I can be happy), are you not by that same token empowered to remove those conditions? 

I've been thinking about people and 
desire
a lot lately. And for the most of my life I thought our desires were things we controlled/decided as your quote above says. 

Recently though I've come to think that what we want is out of our hands. In the short run at least. 

In the long game we have control, but in the moment... what we want is what we want.
Abraham Kim