A Great Desire

What is your great desire?

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Have you found the meaning of your life? Have you lived by it? Maybe it sounds cheesy, but maybe you are still looking for it?

Have you ever wonder, how do you keep yourself in place for this long? What keeps you walking through days?

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What is your great desire?

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When you open your eyes every dawn, and realize that you are still breathing. Are you taking a minute to thank God to let you go on your agenda?

When you go to bed every night, so optimistic you can manage the day after.

What keeps you alive?

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What is your great desire?

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It's been one hell of good question to be asked to everyone. You will find every person can give you different meanings to a 'desire'.

At some people, maybe you will hear an object for the answer.

A world prize for a hungry hand. Cars, big houses, a job, some overpriced brands maybe. But if you go further you will find that those are only the skin. Maybe those shiny things are the first that flashes in mind. But if you know men, objects are never be enough for us.

Then the desire you heard before, will be nothing and the list goes on.

At others, you will hear a name. Or names.

Back to the basic, human is designed to be social. We cannot afford a life without other souls. Hence it brings a meaning to desire. Sometimes we really want to be with people we love. Whatever it takes. Although it means that we give up on our freedom. Sometimes we learn to let the loved ones go in separate ways, only to let them live a happier life. But deep inside, we know that we might let our desires go.

But it doesn't matter 'cause we continue our days knowing that those desires might be living their best lives.

At certain people, you will find a warm and touching answer. A home.

The feeling that cherish us. The moment not only you need someone by your side, but also when you are needed by others. Not because of your wealth, or look, or else. Simply they just need your existence. It is good when you've found somebody that you love, but finding someone who love you back is entirely a whole level.

It's that feeling after every time you go out, every time you fight battles, that you always know where to come back. Or most importantly, who to come back.

But all those levels of desire questions, it simply only a matryoshka doll. Well, maybe not exactly.

If you meet people and ask this question, the very first answer is so often different with their true intent. But when you keep digging, just like that Russian doll, all those answers are leading to one pure wish. Is long to be happy. To be content. In each different perspective of happiness.

How can we be happy? To fulfill what our heart wants? To answer those questions, you should be looking to yourself. 

Human is a never ending puzzle. When you finish one case, you begin others. You cannot solve human. Every soul is unique.

I remember Imam Ali a.s. (peace be upon him) said that,

"You presume you are a small entity,

But within you us enfolded universe.

.. Therefore you have no need

To look beyond yourself.

What you seek is within you,

If only you reflect."

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Have the courage of your desire.

What do you really long for?