What Do I Desire (Skit) Lyrics

What do you desire

What makes you itch

What sort of a situation would you like

Let's suppose I do this often in vocational guidance of students

They come to me and say, well, we're 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 a 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

Or another person says, well, I'd like to live an out-of-doors life and ride horses

I say, do you want to 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

Than a long life spent in a miserable way

And after all, if you do really like what you're doing, it doesn't matter what it is

You can eventually turn it, you could eventually become a master of it

The only way to become a master of something is to be really with it

And then you'll be able to get a good fee for whatever it is

So don't worry too much, somebody is interested in everything

And anything you can be interested in, you'll find others in it

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 and doing things you don't like

And to teach your children to follow in the same track

See, what we're doing is we're bringing up children and educating them

To live the same sort of lives we're 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 it's all wretch and no vomit, it never gets there

And so, therefore, it's so important to consider this question

What do I desire