I want to stop wanting!

All my life I’ve been brainwashed into wanting something. Now I want it to stop. Do you hear me, old Wizard of the Universe? Stop . . . my . . . wanting. Stop Me!

Oh, there were lots of good wants in my life, like getting good grades, avoiding bullies and/or a teacher’s wrath, and experiencing that first kiss you always dreamed about.

Wants helped me achieve things. Becoming an officer in the army, getting a degree from community college and passing the bar exam after a grueling three years of intense studies in law school.

But there were too many bad wants. Like how I just couldn’t live without cool looking clothes that others would admire me in . . . Finding the perfect romantic relationship that I knew would make me whole . . .  and locating that dream house where me and my loved one would remain secure and happy ever after.

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Stop being a slave to all those desires that never lead to true happiness

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Now there’s nothing wrong with any of those things. We all share them at some point in our lives. But there comes a time when you believe you can’t find happiness unless you get what you wanted.

As soon as you get it, however, you start to want something else, or within a short period of time, you want a new one of one of the things you recently got.

A new job.

A new house.

A new lover.

Somehow with all the wants I seemed to get, I never truly felt satisfied. There always seemed that something was missing. Something important, something — I don’t know — “life-sustaining.”

I became a slave to my wanting, my grasping for something more, something bigger, something more luxurious.

Now I want to stop all of those desires. I want to detach myself from the great importance I’ve come to place on them. I don’t want them to be my gods anymore. I won’t worship ’em like before. I want peace with what I already have and to be secure enough to know, I mean really know, that what I got is good enough.

You got what I want, Oh Great and Wonderful Wizard of Oz?