Unpopular Opinion: Desire

Unpopular opinion: What you want is not always good for you.
There is a strange paradox that guides modern western (specifically American culture). In a person's overall life, that person is taught that if he/she wants anything, it should just be taken, at any given time. However, the paradox lies that this is not good advice in nearly any specific area of a person's life. For instance, if I ask for health advice and somebody replies that I should just eat whatever I want whenever, that is quite terrible advice and it will lead to a litany of health problems. Additionally, if somebody asks me for relationship advice, and I reply that that person should just sleep with whomever he/she wants at any time, it probably will not go too well. However, the prevailing attitude of this culture is that if you want something, you should go out and get it. But desires are often adverse to what is good for a person. Discipline may be desired, but the things that cultivate discipline are rarely. Morality as an idea my be desired, but never if it gets in the way of more selfish wants. I heard a stat that 97% of people will exit out of a youtube video if it does not load within the first three seconds. There is a prevailing impatience within this culture, and a vastly negative consequence is that all of the good that having to wait does is undone by everything being at the ready. The internet allows for this in so many differing ways. But this attitude is so detrimental in so many differing ways. So much good in character is gained from the waiting, but ultimately strength in character, integrity, and patience have given way to personal pleasure and the mentality that what a person wants that person has the right to. Nothing could be further from the truth, but unfortunately another prevailing ideology is that there is no such thing as an objective moral reality. What is good for you is good for you and what is wrong for me is wrong for me. The entire satanic bible hinges on one phrase: "Do as thou wilt." Because ultimately, even the being who is seen as more evil than anybody else knows that this mentality does not create men and women of character. I look around and I see pleasure-obsessed people who are intent on doing whatever they want and it has created a society of people killing each other because they do not get their way. The scary thing, even as I type these words, is that most people will not even see this as wrong. They will continue to think that they for some strange reason have a right to whatever they desire, not understanding the long-term adverse affects that such a mentality has on their character. People today generally like ideologies more than realities. For instance, people like the idea of being moral more than actually applying virtue. And this type of mentality is sucking our society dry of morality. It is sucking our society dry of good people and good thinkers. Sure, we still have smart people, but I am talking about people who have the ability to think well because their patience has cultivated it. Realistically, if you look at so many of the tragedies that beset modern western culture, it comes from that one prevailing sentiment, "Do as thou wilt." And what a sentiment it is.
But I do think that just writing about the problem without writing about the solution is not helping anything. People need to be willing to work, and work hard, for that which they do not have but perhaps want, and what is more, it is incredibly vital that people understand that not everything that they want is healthy for them. In fact, I would say that much of what we want is at best, neutral. Very few things that we earnestly desire help the world in some practical or substantial way. Our best option is either to shift what we desire or be willing to lay aside our quest for what we desire in favor of what is right. We need to reassess how entirely vital virtue is, and seek to understand objectively what is right. We cannot think that we can just skate by, doing what we wilt and that everything will turn out right and good. People will be neglected. Rightness and justice will be strewn aside. Rather than doing what we wilt, we need to 'do what is right, regardless of what thou wilt or thou think.' So maybe getting drunk just because one wants is not the best option. Maybe taking the job with the best salary automatically may not be what is best objectively for the world.
It is fine with me if you do not agree. I do not think many people will agree; this is just one man's unpopular opinion.