If I could manipulate those things about you, fears, pain points, pleasures, rewards, could I write your life for you? Make your decisions for you? How would you even know?
Feel like everything we do is an attempt at emotional regulation.
Satisfy a desire, cope with hurt, entire world views based entirely on how things make us feel and how to make it so we feel how we want.
Reality doesn’t matter as much as how we feel about it.
Where do your wants come from? How do they affect your day to day and moment to moment mood? Why? Who are you outside of those wants? Are we even anything outside of what we desire and feel?