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Desire — Entrepreneuring pg133
Colorful companion to my memoir The Incompetent Psychic
1982
By the end of that same year I found myself back in Walnut Creek house sitting while Joan and Roy were on a foreign assignment. That had not been part of the plan. The plan was to not ever move back into my parent’s house in the East Bay burbs. As a teenager I had been captivated by a photo in Seventeen Magazine. It showed a young woman alighting from a cable car on her way to an exciting job! in San Francisco. That image glued itself to a list of passionate desires for my life. I wanted to be that girl in those clothes with that life riding on those cable cars. Ten years later and for nine glorious months I was almost the girl of my dreams. — From Chapter 7
Desire, like so many human foibles, is fine attribute when balanced on a rational fulcrum between dreamy fantasies on one side, and a work ethic on the other. This self portrait from so long ago clearly shows I was far from balanced.
Our longings are tricky. Desire helps us know ourselves and motivates us to action. Desire inspires us to form intentions and make plans. When done right, healthy desire plants a fertilized seed for future fruit.
For instance… For most of my adult life I have wanted to write a book. Instead I typed colorful…
