craving is the child who thinks they need a drink of water at bedtime
Craving is one of many things I would call about as human as you can get. We’re born with this mountainload of capacity for desire and of course all manner of insanity goes on with desire, including trying to shut it down through whatever means possible. But it’s there, it’s there, it’s THERE.
Craving comes along because of some manner of deprivation and in case you haven’t felt it lately, let me remind you that it’s pretty much total madness. Deprivation creates an insatiability. Depending on how much for how long, you can satisfy a craving for a little while, or, no matter what you do, it just extends on into the future unabated, unmet, or, something in between these two.
Craving has a voice, it says what it wants, it locks onto the object of desire like a motherfucker, believing, deeply, truly, that that will be the solution. Give me that thing, I’ll be satisfied.
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