Life is like the changing seasons, and our desires shift with them.
As a child, we crave food; as teenagers, fun. In our twenties, love; in our thirties, wealth. Middle age seeks success; later years, peace. In old age, we long for family and health. Beyond eighty, we realize that the greatest desire is to have no desire at all.
Desire itself is neither good nor bad—it is simply a thermometer of life. The real loss comes when we realize too late: we ate too much to taste, played too hard to grow, chased too fast to live.
Know your stage. Not to suppress desire, but to live with clarity. Let neither desire rule you nor regret chase you.
The wisest way to live is to know, at every stage, what you truly need.