How many people are actually
doing their dream job? I would really be
surprised if it was even 10% of the population.
I think we are raised up with our parents telling us to look for a
sensible career. In other words, very
few encourage their child to be a writer, actor, musician or artist. There’s no money in it, they tell us. Given that there are so many hockey rinks in cities and they are
virtually all booked up with children’s hockey I suspect there are a lot of
parents who see their little Johnny as the next Wayne Gretzky but otherwise I
haven’t observed or heard of parents telling their children to strive to become
Leonardo da Vinci.
So
perhaps we strive to become a doctor, lawyer, teacher, engineer or other
professional and perhaps we end up enjoying this type of career. But the vast majority of have more mundane
jobs, sales people, office support staff, mechanics, plumbers, bus drivers,
hair dressers and so on. We might enjoy
our work, we may enjoy our colleagues, but we don’t LOVE what we do. In other words, we are not living our
passion.
As
we go about our work-a-day world we very soon even forget what our passion may
have been when we were young and still full of hopes and dreams for our
future. We are striving to pay our
bills, our rent or mortgage, send our children out into the world and maybe
even have a little vacation very second or third year. The spark of enthusiasm we used to have when
we picked up a pencil and started doodling, then drawing, then working into a
portrait or landscape slowly fades away.
Then one day we wake up and say “que sera sera” or something equally
inane.
Indeed,
what happened?
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