What do you desire? What makes you itch? What sort of a situation would you like?
Letâs suppose, I do this often in vocational guidance of students, they come to me and say, well, âweâre getting out of college and we have the faintest idea what we want to doâ. So I always ask the question, âwhat would you like to do if money were no object? How would you really enjoy spending your life?â
Well, itâs so amazing as a result of our kind of educational system, crowds of students say well, weâd like to be painters, weâd like to be poets, weâd like to be writers, but as everybody knows you canât earn any money that way. Or another person says well, Iâd like to live an out-of-doors life and ride horses. I said you want to teach in a riding school? Letâs go through with it. What do you want to do? When we finally got down to something, which the individual says he really wants to do, I will say to him, you do that and forget the money, because, if you say that getting the money is the most important thing, you will spend your life completely wasting your time. Youâll be doing things you donât like doing in order to go on living, that is to go on doing things you donât like doing, which is stupid. Better to have a short life that is full of what you like doing than a long life spent in a miserable way. And after all, if you do really like what youâre doing, it doesnât matter what it is, you can eventually turn it â you could eventually become a master of it. Itâs the only way to become a master of something, to be really with it. And then youâll be able to get a good fee for whatever it is. So donât worry too much. Thatâs everybody is â somebody is interested in everything, anything you can be interested in, you will find others will. But itâs absolutely stupid to spend your time doing things you donât like, in order to go on spending things you donât like, doing things you donât like and to teach our children to follow in the same track. See what we are doing, is weâre bringing up children and educating to live the same sort of lifes we are living. In order that they may justify themselves and find satisfaction in life by bringing up their children to bring up their children to do the same thing, so itâs all retch, and no vomit it never gets there. And so, therefore, itâs so important
to consider this question: What do I desire?