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MormonStories.org Why do we do all this?

Why are we so anxious about desire? Just give me your top of mind thoughts.

What's frightening about wanting? And I'll say it in the microphone.

You might not get what you want, you might not get it.

Right, they might say no, then you have to confront the rejection and the disappointment.

You may hurt someone's feelings very good, so my desires might be destructive or hurtful

to somebody. Maybe they're wrong.

Maybe they're wrong, that's a good one, right?

I may want it, but I may be screwed up, right, and it will expose that I'm screwed up.

So it's vulnerable because we're vulnerable to rejection and disappointment, we're vulnerable

to exposure, right, that what we want is off base and we're vulnerable to having to confront

whether or not it's hurtful, you know, whether it's just destructive to someone else.

Any other thoughts about why wanting is makes us anxious?

I think you guys got them actually.

So it feels vulnerable and I think it's so much easier to demonstrate that someone should

give you what you want than it is to own what you want.

You can't control as someone said, you can't control, you can't make someone give you

what you want.

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