How to Manage Your Desires

We all know what it feels like to have thousands of desires. To a pessimist, this desiring engine inside of us becomes an engine for dissatisfaction and suffering that we can't escape. For schopenhauer in particular, you can't even call the state of getting what you want happiness. All we ever have access to is just a very short term, temporary respite from suffering,. only to have new state of affairs become normalized within your experience of the world. At which point you find something else that you desire, strive towards that, and begin the process of suffering all over again.