How would you
really enjoy spending your life? What would you like to do if money didn't matter? What would be your profession? What would you master? What do you desire?
Inspirational short video (music by
Ludovico Einaudi -
Divenire):
Video's script:
"What makes you itch? What sort of the situation would you like? Let's suppose, I do this often in vocational guidance of students: they come to me and say well, we are getting out of college and we haven't 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 it's so
amazing as the result of our kind of educational system, crowds of
students say 'Well, we'd like to be painters, we'd like to be poets,
we'd like to be writers' But as everybody knows you can't earn any money
that way! Another person says 'Well I'd like to live an out-of-door's
life and ride horses.' I said 'You wanna teach in a riding school?'
Let's
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! You'll be doing things you don't like
doing in order to go on living - that is to go on doing things you don't
like doing! Which is stupid! Better to have a short life that is full
of what you like doing then a long life spent in a miserable way. And
after all, if you do really like what you are doing - it doesn't really
matter what it is - you can eventually become a master of it. It's the
only way of becoming the master of something, to be really with it. And
then you will be able to get a good fee for whatever it is. So don't
worry too much, somebody is interested in everything. Anything you can
be interested in, you'll find others who are.
But it's absolutely
stupid to spend your time doing things you don't like in order to go on
spending things you don't like, doing things you don't like and to
teach our children to follow the same track. See, what we are doing is
we are bringing up children and educating to live the same sort of lives
we are living. In order 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 it's all retch and no vomit - it never
gets there! And so therefore it's so important to consider this
question:
What do I desire?"
-
Alan Watts
