Tell me about yourself.

[resonant]

I'm suddenly struck with the desire to know how other people do the things that matter most to them, how they find and follow their passions.

How do you decide where your heart is? How do you carve out time and energy to pursue it?

Are you on a new road or one you've been following for a long time? What have you learned that could help others? What false starts have you made, what poor judgments? What have you compromised, and what do those compromises look like to you now?

Comments

[vickita.livejournal.com]

Yeah. I think... maybe... a big part of the lesson is learning to live with the uncertainty. There hasn't been a once and for all answer for me. I find myself having to revisit the questions over and over again. If I sit with it for a bit, I can usually get fairly clear on what's the right thing for me to do in the current moment (and sometimes it's nothing! Stay calm, wait, it's not time yet...); there's just no guarantee that it'll still be the right thing a year from now, or even next week. A foolish consistency... *g*

(Can you tell I'm a big ol' INFJ?)

Also, you know, I'm not so sure that the details of what we do -- within bounds of trying to be compassionate, ethical creatures -- are so important. It's not the objective "things" that happen to us, so much as how we perceive/interpret them, how we let them affect us, how we respond. We can use pretty much anything life throws at us as inspiration for growth, if we will. Many roads up the mountain.

God, it's good to be reminded to think about these things. Thank you for starting this thread. :-)

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

(Can you tell I'm a big ol' INFJ?)

I married one of those! I'm an INTJ myself, so neither of us has any skill at letting things sit until the water clears and you can see what's going on.