You have a right to experiment with your life

Sep 02, 2012 15:17

"You have a right to experiment with your life. You will make mistakes. And they are right too. No, I think there was too rigid a pattern. You came out of an education and are supposed to know your vocation. Your vocation is fixed, and maybe ten years later you find you are not a teacher anymore or you’re not a painter anymore. It may happen. It ( Read more... )

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angiedub September 3 2012, 18:01:59 UTC
That's an awesome statement and one i've found to be truthy (in a Stephen Colbert way). My family worries about me when I take it into my head to make changes. :P So I have to reassure them that at this stage in my life that I 'incorporate' changes rather than making 'abrupt' changes.
But yeah, we don't stay the same person all our lives, at least some of us don't.

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tea_drinker77 September 21 2012, 21:41:12 UTC
I seem to go through big changes every 5 years. This used to alarm me, but now I kind of look forward to it.

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