Do you really want Mashiach (Messiah) now? Close your eyes for a moment and imagine that Mashiach has already come. He's here. Everything is great. Everything's marvelous. Everything's amazing. You jump out of bed in the morning to daven with the dawn after learning for an hour before davening, and you run to the Beit Midrash (study hall) on your way. Your neighbor, who you haven't spoken to in the last six months, gives you a big smile. You arrive at the Beit Midrash 20 minutes early. At the door, the Palestinian cleaner says to you, "Good morning, sir. Please make sure you learn with all your energy and concentration today." You greet your chavruta (study partner), and immediately you get down to learning. You've zero desire to schmooze with him. You plunge into the Gemara. Every sugya (Talmudic discussion) is open before you, like a brilliant, clear landscape. You have absolutely no desire to get up and make a cup of coffee or check your cell phone. Everything is wonderful, but you feel something's missing.
Kohelet describes the days of Mashiach as not desirable. The commentators explain that they won't be desirable days because there will no longer be a struggle between the Yetzer Hara (evil inclination) and yourself. Those things that we had to fight for so hard were our daily battles: to control where we look, what we think, not to be jealous, and to pray and learn with attention and love. For all of those challenges in which we succeeded, we received so much reward. Well, when Mashiach comes, we'll no longer have that struggle, and therefore we're no longer going to get that reward. And that's why they're called... You know, you can no longer get that ultimate reward from meeting a challenge and succeeding in overcoming it.
Of course, everyone wants Mashiach now. But remember, when Mashiach isn't here right now, that's when the big bucks are flowing. That's when your reward is astronomical. That's when it's beyond imagination. So grab that opportunity now. It's not going to last forever. Every day we wait for Mashiach. And of course, of course, of course, we want him. We want him now, but right now, while we still have the opportunity, grab it. Think of all that reward stashed up in the only place that it really matters: in the first National Bank of Olam Haba (the World to Come).