“The shape of my life is, of course, determined by many things; my background and childhood, my mind and its education, my conscience and its pressures, my heart and its desires.”
― Anne Morrow Lindbergh
How have your desires shaped your life?
See the World
We use the world “wanderlust” to describe the longing to see the world, to travel out and encounter new people, new places, new experiences. But, of course, the world is also exactly where you are right now, and I guarantee that however long you have been in a place, there are aspects of it that you have not yet seen.
What of the world do you wish you could see?
The Pull of Art
“I cannot rest, I must draw, however poor the result, and when I have a bad time come over me it is a stronger desire than ever.”
― Beatrix Potter
What desire to create pulls at you?
Save Me
Maybe someone has thrown you a lifeline, just the help you needed in a time when you felt you could be going under. Or maybe you have felt pulled under by someone who expected you to save them when it wasn’t in your power. This saving and being saved is a complicated thing. It helps to remember that a life preserver is something you throw from the boat while you, yourself, remain aboard.
What has been you best experience of saving or being saved? What has been your worst?
What You Don’t Want
“If you don’t get everything you want, think of the things you don’t get that you don’t want.”
― Oscar Wilde
What are you happier without?