Is it wrong to want "nothing"

Reaching contentment can be a long, hard struggle for most of us. Watching a rerun of Oprah last night, "Gail and Oprah's Adventure"... or whatever it was called, they stopped in an Amish community. The husband of the couple they interviewed said they were 100% content.

They attribute their contentment to their simple way of life. So I guess one ingredient of contentment is simplicity in material things.

Then there's health and emotional well being to consider. Emotional and mental health, to me, are paramount. I'm struggling right now with some emotional issues. One way I've chosen to deal with those issues is to put them out of my life, but that also entails more emotional stress for the time being. In a manner, I've chosen to "want nothing" from this area of my life. There's another personal matter that is robbing me of contentment right now. In most ways, I would chose to "want nothing" from that, too. At this point in my life, it's almost an impossibility.

My T told me once that I have to disconnect emotionally from these things. It's a tough call to disengage emotionally when you love someone. But there is a place where you don't have to take on THEIR emotions, much less be dependent on their emotions to tell you what to feel. So you grabbed the first dark cloud that went past and put it over your head! That doesn't mean I have to get under it, too!

It's been a tough struggle for me lately finding contentment again, but I'll do it eventually. I've done it before in some pretty tough situations. If I take on the meaning that you've (generally speaking) given to "want nothing," then that's what I want in a couple areas of my life.