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They say lust is a desire, and love is a want, for example.

But I've heard somone say they don't want to go to work, when they go to work every day. How can somone decide to do something they don't want to do in the end. Would want then be the final decision, and dire be the base intent?

If so, then why would lust be catagorized as something bad, if it was something of basic intent.

Can we question our wants?

Can we tame our desires?

Can we Fight off our passions, and greeds, and attatchments?

Moreover, can we do these things without medetation, or distraction, but out of sheer willpower?

Or is this all impossible for somone who isn't say, a buddhist, or somone who places their faith in a higher power?

What does it to mean to want, and why do we want in the first place?

Desire is what happens when a soul that doesn't realize it is already perfect tries to perfect itself by acquiring something or someone external to it.

Psychologically speaking, external objects/people become canvasses onto which we project parts of ourselves that we idealize in one way or an other, without realizing that they are already within us. That object/person becomes a symbol for those ideas, and that is what we see, rather than seeing the object/person for what it truly is. Chasing after the desired object/person is really just the acting out of our own internal psychodrama. Obtaining it does not lead to satisfaction; just the short-lived thrill of success followed by disillusionment and confusion. Then the cycle repeats itself.

Work is never the better decision, dude. xp