Urges are powerful, but forgettable

If we have an urge to eat, a fierce powerful urge because we haven’t eaten in hours, it is all we can think about. It ravages our mind just as we want to ravage the food. Even though we have gone through this cycle thousands of times, it is difficult to imagine that food will actually satisfy our hunger. However, after we eat, we completely forget what the hunger felt like. We are pleasant little lumps. The same goes for the sex urge. We want it, want it, want it and then we have sex and there is a calm afterward. Or, think about times when you were so hot and sweaty all you wanted was to cool off. You dream of air conditioners set at 65 degrees. Then, you go into a mall and you are freezing in minutes. You forget how hot you were, what it felt like to be that hot, and you want to go back outside and warm up. We should be thankful for our forgetfulness – the memories of our urges would overwhelm us if they swelled up every time we felt them.