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Desires Make You A Servant
Are You Free Or Enslaved?
If you want nothing, you have everything. You’re in control, and no one has leverage over you. Not businesses, advertisements, societal “norms,” people, or desires.
Real-Life Examples
How often do we witness people buy the new car, only to watch them constantly work to pay for it? They have to keep working, and if they don’t, their car will be repossessed (not to mention their credit will get f*cked up).
Then we have women who wake up earlier every single day just to put on makeup. Because they perceive wearing makeup will present them more attractively to the world, and it will also make them feel better about themselves. But I’m sure not every woman always wants to get up extra early to put on makeup. The makeup industry is a billion-dollar industry because, as women, we’ve been taught one of our main jobs in this world is to be pretty.
Time after time, people modify who they are to fit the mold of who they think others — that they seek approval from — want them to be.
I’m sure many of us have stayed at toxic jobs — full of toxic people who treated us poorly — longer than we needed to because we were too lazy to apply for a better job or because we felt like we couldn’t do better. So, we stayed because we needed…
