Karma: Lessons on Unexamined Desires
Karma: Lessons on Unexamined Desires Amiel Gerald A. Roldan™ August 13, 2026 The desperate scramble for another's station—whether in the hierarchical theater of institutions, the intimate drama of relationships, or the quieter contest of reputations—reveals a peculiar blindness at the heart of human striving. It is not merely that the aspirant fails to interrogate the intrinsic worth of the prize; it is that the very intensity of the desire eclipses the possibility of such interrogation. The object is apprehended solely under the aspect of possession-by-another, and therefore as something that must be wrested free. In this reduction, the coveted position is stripped of its qualitative character and rendered a pure vacancy, a hollow to be filled by the self. What is overlooked is the possibility that the vacancy is not empty in any absolute sense, but is already saturated with a fitness, a tempering, a silent congruence between occupant and office that cannot be transferred by for...
