What do you want?

WHAT do you want?

What DO you want?
What do YOU want?
What do you WANT?

Perhaps this is the question all mankind has asked throughout history ... a summative query of all conflict and of all purpose.  Relationships begin and end in this question ... even asked on a corporate or national level, the history of mankind has rested on this question and on the word that was emphasized.  From the time an infant cries out without words, this question is being asked.  By the age of kindergarten, we have already mastered the manipulation of others to respond.

... and we spend the rest of our lives essentially asking and responding to this question.  All that we do is the result of our personal answer and response.  It it the driving force behind our actions and our purpose in life.  We will sacrifice personal comfort and purpose in our response.

For this man we met in a pub at 11:15 on a chilly fall morning in Charlestown, Ireland ... it was
"a corner table near the peat fire ... and another pint ... with a straw please, for the escape of my Parkinson's and the forty years I spent in the English Navy trying to escape my upbringing in this little town ... only to return to my roots and spend my days drinking in conversation with strangers about memories of Lynard Skynard and early rock and roll."  

Probably not the best answer.

Peace be with you and may GOD bless you.