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  "path": "/2026/05/02/the-wanting-monster/",
  "publishedAt": "2026-05-02T16:30:48.000Z",
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  "textContent": "Wanting is the menacing margin of error between desire and need. It is the blade that vivisects your serenity, the hammer that shatters your wholeness — to want anything is to deem your life incomplete without it. It is a perpetual motion machine that keeps you restlessly spinning around the still point of enough. “Enough is so vast a sweetness, I suppose it never occurs, only pathetic counterfeits,” Emily Dickinson lamented in a love letter a century before Kurt Vonnegut, in his shortest and most poignant poem, located the secret of happiness in the sense of enough. Wanting is a… read article",
  "title": "The Wanting Monster: A Tender Modern Fable about the Difficult Art of Resting at the Still Point of Enough"
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