Alan Watts What do you desire

What do you desire What makes you itch What sort of a situation would you like Lets suppose, I do this often in vocational guidance of students, they come to me and say, well, were getting out of college and we have the faintest idea what we want to do. So I always ask the question, what would you like to do if money were no object How would you really enjoy spending your life Well, its so amazing as a result of our kind of educational system, crowds of students say well, wed like to be painters, wed like to be poets, wed like to be writers, but as everybody knows you cant earn any money that way. Or another person says well, Id like to live an outofdoors life and ride horses. I said you want to teach in a riding school Lets 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 sp