How Much of Our Lives Are Dedicated to Fulfilling Our Desires and Cravings?

It's common to feel that who we are, the sense of i am, has it really changed at all. So when we see the body age so visibly and even feel the effects of aging, we might often wonder, well, how did this happen? Unexamined, we often equate pleasure with desire. Now here his another really interesting discernment that we can to investigate in our lives because it actually can save us a lot of stress. It would be interesting just to notice and t reflect how central this motivation is in our own life.