Not to want

Its Saturday morning. The chill in the room hovers around your quilts and blankets. Wrapped in the warmth of your self made papoose the bed begs you to stay, but you have to work. You sigh with frustration, "God, I wish I didn't have to get up. I HATE working Saturdays."
So there you are, awake for 5 minutes and already you have replaces the happy comfort of a warm bed with frustration and anger. With this you start your day.
So much of our frustration in life comes from want. The very act of wanting issues the awareness that you are lacking.
When we recognize this and start to eliminate the want in our lives its amazing how much want we actually have. Even down to simple actions. When the trash can is full you can take it out to the dumpster like needs to be done, or you can think about how you don't want to take the trash out as you take it to the dumpster. One method the chore is done, the other its done with suffering.
Its these little things that create the whole of our suffering in life. The minute by minute details of our thinking. Want is like a weed in our garden of consciousness. Once we quite watering the seeds of want within us, we find our lives blossoming into the reality we have created, thus freeing us to love ourselves, our lives, and those around us.