Desire Is Making Us Poor (And No One Talks About It)
Desire Is the Most Confusing Emotional State
WARNING : This one’s gonna be kinda woo-woo, kinda on the fringe of that spiritual side (not religious side), stick with me and open your mind a bit. If its not for you, click away, no love lost
Desire feels powerful.
Motivating.
Romantic.
Ambitious.
But on the emotional frequency chart, it sits surprisingly low.
That confuses most of us.
How can wanting more be such a poor place to live?
Desire quietly tells us a dangerous story
Desire is the feeling of lack.
The moment we desire something, we confirm emotionally and mentally, that it is outside of us.
Not here.
Not now.
Not ours.
That’s why desire never satisfies.
It can only point.
Every time we yearn, we grow a little poorer inside.
No matter how much we have.
Wealth isn’t a number, it’s the absence of hunger
We’re taught wealth is about dollars.
But wealth is truly contentment.
Two people can make the same amount of money:
one feels rich
one feels starving
The difference isn’t income.
It’s desire.
Wealth is inversely proportional to how badly we want what we don’t have.
The more we want, the poorer we feel.
The less we desire, the richer we become.
“If it doesn’t want us, don’t chase it”
There’s an old truth we tend to ignore:
If it’s not for us, it won’t require us to abandon ourselves.
Jobs.
Relationships.
Status.
Validation.
The moment something requires us to betray our peace, that thing has already revealed its cost.
And we’re allowed to walk away.
Not because we’re weak.
Because we’re wise.
Why desire eats the soul before it fills the hands
There’s a reason “lust” shows up in ancient texts.
Not just sexual lust
but lust for money,
lust for recognition,
lust for approval.
Lust isn’t about wanting.
It’s about being moved.
When something controls how we act, think, bend, or chase
that thing becomes the price of our soul.
And every price paid changes us.
We don’t get things for free, we trade ourselves
Every pursuit costs something.
But some costs are invisible.
We change for a girl.
For money.
For fame.
For status.
And slowly, without noticing, we sell:
our peace
our future
our values
our self-respect
Not for nothing.
For a wage.
And the question becomes:
Was it worth who we had to become?
Contentment is not settling, it’s power
Contentment isn’t giving up.
It’s standing firm.
It’s saying:
“If I can’t have this without losing myself, it’s not for me.”
That’s not weakness.
That’s sovereignty.
Contentment is the emotional state where:
nothing owns us
nothing controls us
nothing can bargain with our soul
The quiet reframe that changes everything
Desire says:
“I will be whole when I get this.”
Contentment says:
“I am whole, and from here, I choose.”
One makes us hungry.
The other makes us free.
And freedom feels richer than anything desire ever promised.
Final thought
We don’t need less ambition.
We need cleaner ambition.
The kind that doesn’t ask us to sell our peace.
The kind that doesn’t make us smaller inside.
The kind that lets us sleep at night.
Because the real tragedy isn’t not getting what we want.
It’s getting it,
and realizing what it cost us.
