Desire. We need more of it.

I keep telling my friend Julie. That she can lick her depression. By cultivating desire. To get better. Julie lacks desire. Maybe that's why people go into funks. No motivation. No gumption. They get into a rut of negativity. Julie has many valid reasons to be happy. But she rejects them all. And chooses to be unhappy. Steering. Steering a self-destructive course.  As if she deserves such punishment. As if she's undeserving of happiness. Yes, she's all screwed up. I'm baffled. I find it so easy to pursue happiness. And Julie finds it so difficult. If not impossible. Wish I had the power and the ability to teach desire. --Jim Broede