Are you waiting for your calling?
To pursue or not pursue…
For a very long time I thought that everyone in life must have a calling, a passion, a reason to live and move forward. And man, did I struggle with a concept!
I love science.. but I also love art and creating! Buuuut I also want to build something to help people… And I love organisation and management!
What do I do? I sit and wait for something to step up — that’s what I do. Of course! Easy. That’s how Picasso became Picasso. Or Steve Jobs — well became Steve Jobs.
Pile of horse crap! You don’t wait, you never wait. After hearing multiple inspiring people like Seth Godin and Tim Ferriss say that even they never knew what particular thing they should be doing, it made so much sense!
How much easier your life should be knowing that you don’t need ‘a calling’ to be usefull, to be happy (whatever that means).
You just need to do whatever you like in this very moment and your life will organise itself around it. The things that don’t actually interest you that much will weed themselves out and something that you do like — you might learn to love or you might move on. And that’s OK.
You can follow the direction your interests sway at any point of your life.
Waiting for ‘a calling’ that might never come to you is frustrating and worrying and uncomfortable. It creates this big excuse for you not to do anything in the now. You work a job you might not like thinking that you don’t know yet what to do — hence, you are just waiting for what? yes, for the right moment.
Let’s go and create all the right moments. They might be the wrong moments later on, but how will you know until you try?
