Haiku — 0043: Desire

The source of it all.

Channeling my inner SIU (who writes this thing called Tower of God, definitely recommended), let me ask,

“What do you desire?”

A small wish of heart,

First step of thousand miles,

The birth of all things.

Before Lao Tzu jumps down to claim copyrights, let me declare that I used parts of his quote.

The rest, if you’d indulge, is my desire.

There’s a lot to be desired, right?

One of the common threads that connected me through last week’s Haiku was the driving force of things — Be it overcoming a depth, or be it an innocent curiosity to know, or the rush to celebrate the small duration of life or even the rise and ruin of civilizations — These are various manifestations of one fundamental emotion — Desire.

And I spent some time thinking about how to qualify this emotion, and what better words than Lao Tzu’s?

The desire to do something is the first step to anything. Think like this, if Newton didn’t desire to know more, he would have just taken pain relief after the apple fell. Davy wouldn’t have come up with the lamp if he didn’t desire to help mine workers. Yours truly wouldn’t have jumped into sustainable energy if I did not desire a world where power cuts are not a thing.

So, it’s great to desire for something, be it anything.

That leads to the motivation to do the next thing, the thing after, after.

Every next step in the journey of a thousand miles.

Birthed by a single desire.

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