Answer:
You do not want me when you donβt have me, but when you have me you donβt want to lose me.
Weight in my belly, trees on my back, nails in my ribs, feet I do lack. What am I?
When I get closer my tail grows longer but when I go away my tail leads the way.
My first though water cures no thirst my next alone has soul and when he lives upon my first he then is called my whole.
I am a fruit with seed on the outside.
Almost everyone needs it, asks for it, gives it. But almost nobody takes it.