What I'm thinking tonight

[xeans]

Follow your passions, tread the path you choose.
This is the one run around the track we're sure of, make every moment of it yours.

Comments

[nexrad]

Well put and agreed, overall... But there is a tinge of determinism in my belief system. As I progressed in life, I continually steered towards a career in a particular field. Whenever I'd do this, I'd face ever increasing difficulty. At various times I turned to my present field, and have found it much easier.

For a long while I thought that my abandoning the field I had loved was a great mistake and reflection on my own self-doubt and weaknesses. In recent years, however, new success has blossomed for me as I pursue my present path - the one that had seemed easier at one point. Oddly, all of the things I learned while going for my original, long abandoned goals, have come to play tremendous and mysteriously important roles in all that I do now.

Somehow I feel as though I was led in my present path, that while it was my choice to follow - or not - that some force (God?) made it so that what I have come into in life was my intended purpose on this Earth. Oddly, my present path is one that may lead me to help others in great ways - if I am diligent and fortunate enough.

... Just some personal thoughts. ;-)

[xeans]

Sounds like a lot of things have worked out for you. :)

[nexrad]

Indeed - but they've worked out in a most curious way. Many years ago when I diverged from the career I wanted, I was sure I'd regret such for life. It's been odd that I've found new success and joys in what's become my career.