helm, there is when the actual adventure will start.
It will be up to us to finally decide to live it all.
Once we will set the route our goal will be there waiting for us and the lands weâve been wanting to see will be looking forward to welcoming us.
Maybe someday we will be part of some legends, rising to the Olympus of mythical heroes.
We will be remembered and known as forefathers and weâll possibly discover new continents, whose existence many had long ignored.
May fate and the sea be always on your side in your trip, Captain!
WISHES AS THE ENGINE OF LIFE
âWe are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep.â
William Shakespeare
Wishes are our actual strength throughout our life.
Since birth, we come into this world as hollow creatures who are not self-aware and who do not have any conscience about the surrounding reality.
Like any other life form on Earth, the very first part of our existence is completely dominated by our instinct of survival.
This goes also for minerals.
Despite their lack of what from a biological point of view we would call âlifeâ, they struggle continuously to earn their place in the universe and in our existence.
Even among our cells and atoms there is a sort of unconscious instinct of preservation, despite their being part of anindivisibile entirety.
The newborn unconsciously cares about his own survival, the lowest step of the pyramid that Abraham Maslow thought of to represent the hierarchy of human needs in the quest for individual self-fulfilment.
These steps represent the phases of self-fulfilment and in order to reach the top â that is, the maximum degree of an individualâs realization â one must go through the first, most basic and essential stop up until the last one.
At the base of the pyramid are physiological needs such as hunger, thirst, and sleep.
Then, the needs for security and protection; on the third level stays the need for belonging, affection, family.
On the fourth, the need for respect, prestige and success, while the last step deals about oneâs self-realization.
Each need, in order to be fulfilled, requires a particular kind of energy, that we call âwishâ or âdesireâ.
The man will never reach self-fulfilment nor will he cover a prominent role in absence of desire.
If one does not wish for it, he will not even be able to have a family, be surrounded by love or rather feel safe.
As a matter of fact, as far as survival is concerned, desires are automatic and unconscious so that every individual can firmly wish to live before anything else.
Think of sexuality.
Nature made sure that sex could provide everyone with emotion and pleasure of such intensity that it is somehow difficult to renounce it.
All of this comes in the wider picture of the preservation of the species.
Let us go back to our newborn baby.
There will be a moment in the overwhelming tide of information he gets â and that inevitably contribute to mold his own representation of the outside world and of himself â when his personality will begin to take shape.
Personality is the peculiarity that gives uniqueness to that person.
What emerges then through personality, game, through the baby trying the express himself in the context heâs put into?
How does he deal with his whole existence?
Through desire.
Desires originate as the engine of individual existence.
They are born as intentions and they simultaneously develop through intension.
Thus, each of my wishes or desiresis an intention and throughout my whole existence I constantly long for something.
This may sound weird but it actually reflects reality.
We tend to think of desires as something big and imposing, something almost unfeasible or rather unreachable, something we must struggle to get.
Actually, our entire life is based on and is studded with a variety of desires: the wish to appear in a certain way, the wish to be, the wish to act, try or seek; the wish to believe, to create, to know, to possess, and so forth.
This is easily reflected in the way children play, the moment when desires are eager to emerge continuously.
On the other hand, adults tend to conceal their âworld of desiresâ despite their tendency to long for something is far from disappeared.
They manifest only what they judge convenient or suitable for the situation and the people around them in that particular moment.
We can define desire as the engine that drives our being towards directions we choose for ourselves, based upon what we long for.
Wishes pushes people to act.
It determines behaviour and so does the counterpart of desire, that is, what we wish not to happen.
That is a wish as well, and its defined as a negative one as it is something we do not want to come true.
Moreover, it pushes us towards certain situations in order to achieve fulfilment.
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