When I was born, I was fortunate enough to have a loving family that cared for me and provided for me.
Initially they taught me to speak and walk and think and reason and then eventually they put me into school where I learned many, many more things.
From that point on my life was rather well planned out.
What no one ever told me is that at one point, my life wasn't going to have a plan.
I guess that this was always a given: once I was finished with my schooling then I would have to do something with my life and "make a living" somehow.
But even in high school, there was still this idea that, well, next year I will go to college, and then I will have skills and a degree and I will be able to apply for jobs, etc.
What no one ever told me is that you can't exactly apply for jobs like you apply for schools.
There is no set path or set goals or set plan for anything.
Life is wild, open, unpredictable, beautiful and grand.
I don't know if this secret had been purposefully or accidentally kept from me my entire life. I don't think it was intentional because I guess that it is not really a secret.
But it is a scary thing to really realize that, from here on out, if I do nothing to make something happen, then nothing will happen with my life.
I feel as if I am starting my life over again, right now, with a fresh clean slate, except already I have twenty years of training and education and experience under my skin, and I am well enculturated into this society.
Right now, I am looking towards my open horizons, and am excited to see what happens next; I am also prepared to bear the weight and consequence of my future decisions, whatever those may be.
Please do not fear the wilderness of life once you come upon it. Look out into it, take a risk and prepare yourself for the wildest adventure you can possibly dream up.
"Don't ask yourself what the world needs;
ask yourself what makes you come alive.
And then go and do that.
Because what the world needs
is people who have come alive."
-Harold Whitman
P.S. Copland's Fanfare For The Common Man is probably my favourite song at the moment. Please listen to it while you read this post, and while you perform any other task ever.
