BY SAMINA AKHTAR
Having a desire is a human feeling but if this desire controls your body and mind then you really are a slave of it, and you really have lost your everything and you do not know about loosing anything at all, instead because of your desires leading your body and mind then the only ability you have is to think that you really have achieved everything by a right way and you deserve many more still. Such desire is that feeling inside which can make you restless, unhappy, unhealthy and even can make you behave like a beast at times, and sometimes you may loose the humane sense completely too. Controlling your desires can make you feel at ease anywhere, anytime and in any situation. Only thought of desire of having more, overloaded your mind and do not let you think of some other thing which you really do not desire and because of your desires of having more and more whatever it is and this desire of having more and more is not making you less than a beast which desires more and more piece even if it does not have the intake capacity anymore but because it is seeing that others have some piece its greed inside wants to snatch everything from others and have only for itself even if it may rot over night but its greed may not let it give others the same share and same is the person who desires more and more, more and more and ultimately he wants to have every piece and not peace. He is not able to think of peace because of his desire of more pieces. His mind is only overloaded by the thinking to have more and more and he is not able to think what disaster others may find because of his desire of more. Such people do not know what peace is because they only know what piece is. They are the main destructors of the human societies. They are such people who can sting others deep inside the heart without letting them know that they had been stung. They are such pathological liars that even after you trying and trying to reach their real face, you will fail. You never may able to do so as easily as you think because such individuals are toughest persons to deal with; even if you are a psychiatrist or a psychologist you cannot take his actions at face value. They may not let others to be in peace because they have never found peace in themselves. They never may come to know what peace is and why this peace has much necessity around and inside a human being, it is because of his preloaded thinking of piece.
The people with desires to have more piece never know what they are doing and what not, they do not have set principles for their lives, the only aim, goal and desire they have is to have more and more no matter how. They do not feel any remorse because their conscience is dead and only their desires are alive. When these desires become permanent in a person he becomes stable with these desires and is not able to take himself out of these desires and these desires are slowly and steadily making these people so cunning that they cannot reveal anything else than their cunningness and they are not even able to think that they are now cunning or how much cunning they are. But rather they think they are the most merciful people in this world. They cannot compare the cunningness, rudeness and their ruthlessness with the sympathy. They think that they are the empathetic people and are able to lead anywhere and everywhere but actually they are not, their desires of having more and more piece have made them worthless and ruthless. Their only perceived assumptions are that, this thing is mine and that thing belongs to me too and when that thing also captured by such people they then assume that another thing whatever they see belongs to them too. By this way they desire more and more piece and infact that desire to have the whole piece may lead them to try to get it in anyway, whether, legal or illegal. It is they do not care at all they desire to have it and they will have it, they will not think whether they are destroying anything, whether they are hurting others, is this an illegal way to have, am I snatching something from others, am I cunning, am I ruthless, am I not sympathetic, he does not cares all this and neither he will care for all this, because he is not even able to think all this or even he may not be able to imagine all this. His desires have not freed his mind yet to think all these about’s. He will never come to know what people think about him and he also does not even want to know what people actually talk about him because if he will think this even for a moment he will come out of his desires which he do not want and he no more may have more and more piece and may be have no more desires but he does not want to snatch his desires from himself because he may not have more and more piece then. He either does not like peace of people or he does not know what peace mean for people because he himself never may have find peace anytime and anywhere only because of his desires and he do not care for peace of people at all and whatever is possible for him he will do to recoil the peace from the people by taking away piece from them whether small or big he will not care for it. The only desire which they have is to have more and more piece and for this more and more piece they will destroy the peace for the people from whom he want to have the piece. He will kill people who will revolt with him and will snatch the piece to have the victory for getting more and more piece. They do not care even for innocent people who ever they will be; a woman, a man or an innocent child he will not care at all. Whatever would be possible for him, he will do that for having that piece in order to satisfy his desire because that desire is the only perceived assumption in them and the only imagination they have is to get more and more piece, no matter how he could do it and when he could do it but one thing is sure that he will do it because he have to satisfy his desire.
When we load one desire on our mind, if we do not control it then the other desire get loaded over our mind automatically. Still if we are not able to control our desires many and more desires will overload our mind and we may not be able to control them very easily but still we can control them and we should. The need then is to control them not abruptly but a bit slowly, shed it off from the mind by not satisfying our desires. It may take time to shed off these desires from our mind especially when we have the mind overloaded only by our desires. We possibly cannot think of another thing except the desires we have loaded on our mind but if we are promising with our self that no; we do not want and we should not have desires only. We should stop our desires because desires often lead a person to be greedy and once we become greedy by means of our desires, we are no more humans as we have lost humanity and the sense to be humane is perhaps lost too. At this time we could not realise it very easily and that is the time when we are not less than a beast. There is no difference between the person and beast. That person who cannot see anything else than his desires is no more an asset for his society. They have lost the sense that they need a society and they are living in it. Such people will never realise what they are actually doing. People who have the desire that the society in which they live should be their slaves and for attaining this desire they could harm the whole humanity without feeling remorse. They will continue it until their desires are not satisfied. They actually are not able to think that their desires have grown up to that dangerous stage that they even do not know what is wrong and what is right. The most important thing is that they will never be able to satisfy their desires even if they will have this whole world alone but still they will have desire to get more and more piece. They again and again will desire more and more, more and more. They will never care what that more may consist whether it would be a piece of cake, a piece of land, a water body or anything else but their thirst of having more is never ever quenched that is because a desire gets never satisfied instead many and more desires are born out of it and they do not understand it. When many and more desires are born out in a human being then he no more remains a human being. Though his body may look like a human being but his thoughts and his actions may reveal that he is not a human being and is not less than a beast.
Samina Akhtar can be reached at samina031990@gmail.com
