What makes you itch?
…it’s absolutely stupid to spend your time doing things you don’t like in order to go on 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. 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