I had a great conversation with a friend of mine today. We discussed a whole variety of things... but one of the things that came up with contentment vs. desire...
We talked for a little while about the idea in our world today that the "contentment" is considered to be the absense of some thing that we desire.
Ex. I want to be in a relationship, but people tell me the way to find that relationship is to just be content. Like maybe there is a magical formula to contentment, that once I find it will bring me peace and happiness until I find what I really want....
I don't think that is always the case...sometimes, maybe, but not as often as we explain it to people like that...
Here is a little more of what I think it looks like...
An alcoholic choosing to live a sober life... it doesn't mean that the desire to drink disappears, but that they are making a choice about how they will live.
Choosing to live a pure life before marriage and waiting to have sex until you are married... doesn't mean that you are void of sexual desire goes away or that you won't be horny. It means that you have made a choice to inspite of that desire commit to a way of life.
Sometimes I think contentment is being able to live in the pressence of something you desire, and being ok with not needed to have it...
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