get, but what we do with them.^6
Course Correction for Your
Calling
At some point, you entertained the idea that you were born
to do something significant. But then high school happened.
Or college. And your parents talked you into becoming a
lawyer instead of a baker. That professor told you med
school was a smarter move than relocating to New York to
try out an acting career. And you believed them. When “real
life” began, you gave up, but called it growing up instead
and abandoned the dream altogether. You made excuses for
why wanting something extraordinary was somehow selfish
and immature, and you wondered if any of those youthful
feelings were ever real in the first place.
But even then, you knew you were wrong. No matter
how noisy the world got, no matter how busy you became,
there would always be something inside you—a small voice
that whispered in the quieter moments of life, taunting you
with the shadow of the unlived life. If you listen hard
enough, you can still hear it.
Everywhere you look, people are giving excuses for not
pursuing what they were born to do. Some say they are “a
work in progress,” while others shrug with indifference,