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To want. 

From the Latin volo, velle "to wish, will, desire". 

It doesn't need too much explanation. Isn't desire the source of all evil? I think I read this somewhere, but google did not say this instead it brought me this... 

Buddhists - They state that suffering is an inevitable part of life as we know it. The cause of this suffering is attachment to, or craving for worldly pleasures of all kinds and clinging to this very existence, our "self" and the things or people we—due to our delusions—deem the cause of our respective happiness or unhappiness. The suffering ends when the craving and desire ends, or one is freed from all desires by eliminating the delusions, reaches "Enlightenment". 

So it is. Indeed. I have had so many projects for the house over the years that I lost count,  I want a new room, a new wardrobe, a new setup for the kitchen, and the kid's room. A new mattress and pillows, bedding, and decoration. A new set of cutlery, plates, and everything. A new corridor, the bathroom I got but not perfect.  I am moved by wanting, by desiring things I cannot have or afford (at the moment). 

My husband never wants anything, he seems content with everything being imperfect, old, slightly worn out, and ugly. I think he is Japanese and doesn't know. He is definitely "The Enlighted" in our relationship. 

I want everything new every six months. Perfectly designed furniture, well-distributed spaces, room, light, and space. That imaginary place where Danish design meets hygge and sophistication, sunset coming through your window and that Instagram picture showing the view. 

Aristotle thoughts on desire are over 2000 years old...

Everything, too, is pleasant for which we have the desire within us, since desire is the craving for pleasure. Of the desires some are irrational, some associated with reason. By irrational I mean those which do not arise from any opinion held by the mind. Of this kind are those known as ‘natural’; for instance, those originating in the body, such as the desire for nourishment, namely hunger and thirst, and a separate kind of desire answering to each kind of nourishment; and the desires connected with taste and sex and sensations of touch in general; and those of smell, hearing, and vision. Rational desires are those which we are induced to have; there are many things we desire to see or get because we have been told of them and induced to believe them good.[4]I have spent thousands of pounds on a lot of unimportant stuff but nothing is what really matters. I really don't know why but I am determined to change that. 

I can't get over the fact and how these Greeks were sensible people all these years ago with much less of everything than we have these days. God is pretty minimalistic too, He never does anything in excess, everything comes in the right measure.

I will stop here and jump over to Pinterest to dream more about the Dream Room I want for my kids, now and in our new house...maybe dreaming doesn't count as wanting.