# Fulfilling Non-fulfillment

By [jer979](https://paragraph.com/@jer979-2) · 2025-09-26

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With time, wants fade.

Even needs morph and sometimes wither.

Yet, despite efforts to not let wants or needs exert control or undue influence, they sometimes do.

A persistent, nagging sense of desire, of non-fulfillment.

An emptiness in the belly.

A pulsing in the arms.

A heaviness in the shoulders or the eyebrows.

A shooting pain that radiates to the fingertips.

Regret. Fear.

A life not lived “fully.”

I tell myself that that’s the point.

That feeling of non-fulfillment?

That’s the proof of existence.

Of Being.

Of Life.

The goal?

Be fulfilled by that.

Easier said than done.

Easier blogged than done too.

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