The Desires Epictetus 1-10

As I began reading Epictetus I realized how this could be the guide for my daily life. It states many different points and very clearly and briefly describes them. At first he talks about how we cannot control our lives completely, and then it begins to talk about the desire: “Remember, what a desire proposes is that you gain what you desire,” (Epictetus Section 2). This is very clear at first sight but I had never thought if desire in such way and now I realize that we can manage to try to do whatever we like. And that all that we accomplish is what we desired and so hard worked for.
Desire: “To wish or long for; want, To express a wish for; request.” (http://www.thefreedictionary.com/desire). In the paragraph above I stated how everything that you have is desires. Because it is what you have worked for, what you deserve in return. But if you don’t get what you desire and have really worked hard for you will be considered and unlucky person. “Someone who fails to obtain what he desires is unfortunate, while someone who falls into what he is averse to has met misfortune” (Epictetus Section 2). And this means that if you fall into the opposite of your happiness you will be tricked and haunted into misfortune, or bad things.
If you are to be cursed then you will have to face misfortune. There is nothing that you can so to avoid it. “what an aversion proposes is that you not fall into what you are adverse to” (Epictetus Section 2). So either you will get your desires and be happy or you are going to have to fall into your adverse or in other words your misfortune and will have to learn to live with it because there will not be any turn backs.