For someone to refer to your feelings as "a sad way to live", makes me feel "sad" for them, because that is just plain ignorant as well as highly arrogant-
We ALL have that desire pop back up from time to time, we're friggin' alcoholics!! What matters is how we react to the thoughts- Anyone who claims they "lost" their desire forever after a few days is in my opinion living in a state of denial.. one which could quite easily lead to a relapse, because of the fact that it's a refusal to deal with the realities of recovery-