To want, or not to want

The stanza I felt gave the best advice is stanza 39 of the third teaching. The stanza says “Knowledge is obscured by the wise mans eternal enemy, which takes form as desire, an insatiable fire.”
I was talking to my best friend Sam on the phone the other day, and she was saying how she wanted to do this and that, and she was basically listing all of her desires. Since we have been best friends since we were in second grade we always tell each other what we want and those kind of things, but in this particular case it especially related to the stanza because she was saying how she wanted to go to the movies with her roommate and a couple of their friends, but she couldn’t because she had to write a paper. Her desire to have fun was obscuring her academic progress, and this made it a perfect opportunity for me to say this line. When I finished saying the quote, she was silent for a couple seconds, and then she laughed and said, “Since when do you say smart philosophical things like that?” She then went on to say how it made sense and if she could rid herself of the desire to go to the movies, it wouldn’t be in her mind while she was writing her paper and she would most likely write a higher quality paper than she would have with her desire to go to the movies. The words of the Gita helped Sam to realize frivolous desires only slow you down, and obscure your advancement.