August 6th, 2010 Desire

Andy Rooney, the old curmudgeon on 60 minutes, posted an article talking about the destructive nature of desire. He ponders whether an anti-desire pill could level out desire. If you want to level your desire, here is how you do it in one word: discipline. Desire for something better is what makes a lot of us get up in the morning and work hard. Desire is necessary to fufill our lives, but as with all things, excessive desire is destructive. Desire needs to be moderated and that is where discipline comes in. Some who have big desires have the discipline in place to keep the desire from becoming too big, some learn that skill as they go and then there are sadly some who have no discipline at all. So, do we allow society and the human element that leads to problem solving to flourish, or do we suffer for the sins of a few?