I believe that living is wanting, no matter how numb one succeeds in becoming through discipline, drugs, brain damage, or whatever, no matter how repressed into the subconscious desire may be, it is as strong as each heartbeat and just as present as, like it or not, acknowledge it or not, it permeates everything we do.

The sooner we learn to accept this, even with the apparently unbearable ache that comes with feeling unfulfilled desires, the sooner we can stop fooling ourselves into believing we can live without it and maybe then we'll just deal with getting whatever fulfillment we can find.