In one sent of term,we can't "desire" something if we already have it.I might desire a new home or new car;I might want to be handsome or brilliant;I might want to play the piano,or to speak French,or to be a marathon runner.these are things I might desire,but only if I experience them as things that are missing in my life,as things that I lack.Understood in this way,accompanying any desire is a sense of dissatisfaction.To satisfy a desire is simply to alleviate this sense of dissatisfaction.Satisfying a desire is like quenching a thirst,and this is precisely how desire is understood in Buddhism.The Pali term is tanha,Which also translates as "thirst" or "craving