Forget Money, Follow Your Heart
Give up the pursuit of money for a life well-lived.
According to Merriam-Webster, a career is “a profession for which one trains and which is undertaken as a permanent calling.”
I am dreadfully fearful of careers.
I am afraid I’ll be stuck in one I despise for the rest of my life.
The majority of people’s days follow this pattern:
- Wake up at 6 am
- Go to jobs they dislike
- Come home tired
- Drown their woes with booze
- Watch TV for a temporary escape
- And press the repeat button the following day
I don’t want to join the majority.
No, I want to be the minority that defies the societal influence that says you have to do the same damn thing for 40 hours a week the rest of your life.
My main prerogative is to be myself — as truthful to being me as I can be. And to be myself means to live a life free of limitations set by others. I wish to live a life of unabated passion, where one moment transitions to another moment of bliss.
I do not wish to impose these values upon you. I only wish to remind you of life’s impermanence, how amazing and…
