>>26878536 But passion is largely and foremost a matter of surplus strength i.e. a Machoke’s power belt, violent stimulation i.e. an Electrode’s agitation towards a Pester Ball, and the lust of possession i.e a Sableye’s inner necessity to acquire gems, all of which are steadily and gradually worn down by a steady and gradual drain on surplus strength (there is little need to improve your strength and leadership in Pokémon training once you have already reached the horizon), the supervening of gradual callousness and indifference through the repetition of similar stimuli (Ash’s continual and seemingly psychotic energy and surprise at every Pokémon he catches, every battle he loses, and every Team Rocket contraption he bears witness to can hold no relation to any great or powerful person, but only to those with weak will, low spirit and ambitions), and / or , the consciousness of holding definitely, or rather indefinitely, the goal originally coveted (in this case, the prospect of Ash winning the Grand Tournament with Greninja, both satisfying their now emaciated, drawn out, and haggard desires)
Desire also, by being fulfilled and gratified, is stilled. The best cure for desire, errant or otherwise, is precisely gratification. But a cure is hardly what is desired or anticipated by the ambitious child, Pokémon, etc. That is why the world's greatest stories of either romance, passion, or ambition— those of The Divine Comedy, Romeo and Juliet, and The Sorrows of Young Werther — are all stories of a longing passion that was never fulfilled. In poetry and fiction, as in life, it is felt that for a great aspiration or romance to remain at its loftiest level of passion and desire, the individual or couple enacting it must never have a single opportunity to wholly and absolutely succeed at their divine goal.