Desire

As a culture we tend to favor north-star thinking, delayed gratification, work-now-relax-later kind of stuff. But sometimes this can be a sneaky form of escapism—a way of living that never asks you to listen to the present instead.

what it looks like to make a personal decision that may be in direct conflict with desire—even a deep, gut-level desire, which many of us have been trained to trust as a north star.