In a wonderful and enlightening book called 'Perspectives' (a wonderful thing to have btw!) by a guy called Colin Creel, is a quote from another guy called Howard Hendricks. It goes like this:
What makes you pound the table?
And yes, this is an American book. But this is something I thought I'd include here. Dr Hendricks is helping someone to find out what their calling in life is. What kind of career they should follow, and he asks all kinds of questions to find out what the guys loses sleep over. What it is that makes his blood pressure rise, what stirs his soul. What he's PASSIONATE about.
We're all getting to the stage where we start thinking about what we're going to DO with the rest of our lives. All those years that stretch out for seemingly infinity, just blank and empty and waiting to be filled with something. Anything. Does it terrify anyone else that we're pretty close to the stage where we will start making decisions that not only affect the next few years, but will shape the contours of our entire lives. It sure as hell scares me!
But what Colin Creel is getting at is that we must look to our passions to figure out what to do with our years. What stirs your soul? Do that! What makes tears well up in your eyes when you think about it... Do it! What makes you pound the table? Do that! We will be satisfied when we let our hearts live out our passions.
I have two final questions that I think are worth alot of thought...
1. What is the greatest risk of pursuing your dreams? Is it worth it?
2. What is the greatest risk of NOT pursuing your dreams? Is that worth it?
nb. material for the above largely taken from Coliin Creel 2005 'Perspectives' it is not plagurism!
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What happens if you can't pursue your dreams? What if it's not possible? Will we just live a life of unsatisifaction?
It terrifies me that any choice I make could affect the rest of my life!!
It depends on why you can't persue your dreams I think. If it's because you're too scared, or other people are pressuring you to do something else, I think I would have to say, that if it really and truely is one of your dreams you should go for it!
That's not to say that we don't sometimes have dreams that are bad for us... those probably shouldn't be followed!
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