Life is not a one-act play. What you do tomorrow or even for the next 10 years may not be what you do with the rest ofyour life. A decision today doesn’t have to be forever.
Do you remember how frustrating it was to need to know what to do with the rest of your life when you started college? Orthe aggravation if you or someone you knew decided the direction you had chosen didn’t feel right?
I had a friend who put herself through vet school, only to discover to her horror (because she had accrued a lot of debt)she didn’t want to be a practicing veterinarian. And I knew someone whose family was all about him becoming an attorney, as his dad and grandfather had been. He completed law school and quit practicing law to become a magician; hecould handle doing what his parents told him to do for only so long.
We encounter road blocks and intersections and pathways where decisions are mandatory, and they may lead us in avariety of directions during our lives and careers. Instead of standing firm on where we started because we’ve alreadyinvested time and energy, let’s welcome the amazing opportunities that may guide us in a multitude of new directions.
