I want... this and that... and maybe what i already have

I thought this time around I won’t bother with the rhyme, although it sounds better it just takes a lot of time. 

I was discussing with a friend yesterday on the ability to look within, how even things that you want, can be categorised into the public and the private divide. Basically the process of how your “wants” address your public and private needs.

For example, there will be certain wants like say visiting a famous place like say London or Paris which at times could be just "public wants", implying that, they would give you good conversation pointers and only make you feel appreciated in public. Infact your recollection of the fulfilment of these desires would also be limited to discussing them with the known appreciators.

On the other hand, there are a set of private wants, which may not be as appealing to those around you, yet to you, they are almost irresistible. For example, eating a favoured cuisine, spending time with a loved one, playing your favourite sport are all such moments of truth. The culmination of these wants would be the moments forming part of your memorabilia when you look back at life.

Yet sometimes we get confused and demand and run after public wants more than the private ones. Although this could be because we are more accustomed to discuss the former but in most cases, including myself, it happens because we don't identify those moments as fulfilment of wants, we don’t appreciate those moments of joy as those to be recollected and in turn just keep them to ourselves without tagging them as a lifelong remembrance.

The process of identification I haven't been able to figure out, but I know I want to start now and realise before long...