How Do You Feel About Pleasure?
Our desires might makes us vulnerable but they can fuel daily life if we let them
There are words that generate a reaction the moment you think them, and desire is one of them. The mind instantly rushes to sensuality, and from there to fantasy or to shame dependent on our mood and the messages we were given as we grew up. But why does even the idea of desire create such an immediate response?
The things we desire are the things we want. They are the things we ache for, that we think about long after the lights go out. The things we hide away within ourselves as though they were as fragile as spiders lace. The moment we think of what we want and bring shape and texture to it, is the moment we fear having it taken away or worst still never getting to have it at all. Be it a person or a touch. Be it a career or a goal achieved, or an image of ourselves. In the wanting of something we are made vulnerable.
It is that vulnerability that offers us the frisson of excitement at the possibility of attaining the thing we most desire, and on the other side of that sharpest sword, the petrifying fear that it will permanently remain just out of reach, or that someone will think less of us for knowing what our desires are.
