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[nny]

Sometimes I am a very stupid person. When I have a sad on because I don't get what I want, it can really frequently be pinned to the fact that I so rarely articulate what I want, or make efforts to go after it. Often I only recognise what I want in the misty realisation that I don't have it.

I can't work out when I learned, or thought, that it's not okay to need/want things. Probably one o' them childhood lack of money things.

Maybe I should make a list.

Do you know what you want?

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[pennyplainknits]

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I do, but I don't know how to get there

[nny]

Possibly this is also a contributing factor to why I don't know what I want; admission of what you want also requires a strategy, and I am shit at plans. :D

[siegeofangels]

HAHAHA NO. I, mostly, *think* I know what I want, but sometimes it is more that I think I *should* want something regardless of my actual desire for it or whether it would be good for me--like, I want a house of my own, but I am sideeying myself hard at this because do I even have the time to keep up my apartment? And would a house just isolate me?

And sometimes I want things because I think that having those things will fix all of my problems--see all of the makeup articles I have ever bought, and also all of my cargo-cult craft supplies, like, no self, owning art/craft supplies does not make you the kind of person who uses them.

I'm okay at identifying things I want to eat, though. I think I've got that down.

Hugs to you, though; sads are no fun. A list sounds good! Does list-making make you happy?

[soupytwist]

I am pretty sure I know SOME of what I want. It's a really difficult question, though. There are things where I am reasonably confident I want that specific thing, and then there's a lot of other things where it's more a sense of want and my concept of the actual fulfilment of that feeling is a lot more nebulous. And then there are more things where I'm more just confused!

[la_rainette]

I do, yes. I am working on it, but it's hard going and unfortunately not something will alone can achieve, apparently. More via email soon if you're interested?

What is it you know you want, if anything? *HUGS*