Desiring The Break-Down

I think it is wrong to assume that we never want things to 'fall apart,' that we never wish for a 'break-down.' I most definitely feel that this is a great and tragic error in our psychological thinking: to presume that all 'building-up' is good and all 'breaking-down' is bad.

For example, whenever we are afflicted with something painful--with some form of suffering--we tend to wish for it to go away. That is a desire for the breaking-down of that form of pathology that is causing us so mucn anguish.

Another example: maybe we want to get out of an unhealthy relationship. We pray for things to 'fall apart.' We wish for a disintegration of something that has 'come into being.'

Strangely enough, we do wish for death. Death is not always the thing feared. Often death is the thing desired.