O’Desire

What do I desire? A question loaded like a Remington 12 gauge. Knee jerk, off the top of my head response? An inexpensive, rich cup of coffee, the perfect trumpet mouthpiece, my eyesight back and if it ain’t too much trouble, throw in more libido. I desire a food market that has affordable beef tongue, chicken livers, faux lobster and oh yeah, peace on earth.

I can’t ask for a good relationship, got that in spades. I can’t desire fresh air, clean water, and the peace that only comes from living in a temperate rain forest, check. I desire more abstract, intangible, impossible things like more “get real gravity” with a supersize order of zeitgeist responsibility. Does that make any sense? I desire positive resolution. I desire an end to all predatory competition. I desire Nature to reclaim planetary common sense.

Seems all my desires are in a committee, collaboratively chaired by Santa Clause and the Easter Bunny… are my naive, altruistic roots showing? Tough, suck it up buttercup.

I belong to a species genus that isn’t top of the food chain, contrary to my species’ delusions. I don’t have a problem with that, I don’t make rationalizations and excuses that argue that position. I desire, all that claim to be top of the so called ‘food chain,’ to “shut the F up.”

I’m lucky. I’ve received a couple things, conditions I’ve longed for most of my life. It exacted a high price. Following the path here was worth the pain and suffering. Yeah, now that I’m here, I wish some of that pain and suffering would fade a bit. No chance. Still it was all worth it, I wouldn’t do anything differently, although I wish some others along the way would have chosen differently, but hey, not my circus, not my monkeys.

After reflecting a bit more, I’ll add I desire all passive/aggressive types to magically either get a clue or disappear off the face of the planet. I hear Pluto is just fabulous this time of year….

Seriously? What I desire is wrapped up in a little saying, a little conundrum I learned a couple lifetimes ago. “It’s not what you want that makes you fat, it’s what you get.”

Take a lifetime to think that over, apply it like so much school paste, and then see if your own desires don’t refocus.

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