What’s the most important life lesson you’ve learned?
The world is limited by our understanding of it. Learn more. Stay curious. What you imagine can become your reality. Use your imagination well.
Category: The Write Stuff
A weekly interview series of San Francisco Bay Area authors, first published at SF Weekly from October 4, 2012 to January 28, 2016 and then for a few more years at Litseen.com.
Aaron Qayumi on Letting Go of the Idea that Anything Can Possibly Stop You from Doing Something that You Want To Do
What is the relationship between your identity and your desires? Perhaps related, perhaps not: why is sex (un)important to you?
My identity is a shell that I wear like a hermit crab, and change from time to time. My desires are what move me forward from one place to another, and when they get big enough they inspire me to look for a new shell. Sex is important because I always desire it, and because being naked is a brief relief from the weight of wearing an identity-shell.