When I was a kid everyone used to ask me, “What are you going to be when you grow up?” When I was really young that question would always illicit a very fanciful answer. It was always filled with wild adjectives and big ideas that would seem more real to me than my real life.
As I got older, I began to be tested and told the kinds of things that I would be “best” at in hopes that I would direct my life to what other people said would be my best available choices. Being a fairly compliant kid (my mother might have issues with this assessment) I set out to be and do what I was told I would be best at. But, inside me there was always this wide-eyed kid who wanted to be somewhere else, doing what my heart cried out for.
As one who is now approaching what people say are my “retirement years” I find myself once again having to make a choice. Should I listen to the conventional wisdom of the crowd and think in terms of retirement or should I finally make the choice that is best for me? I have chosen the latter and the door to a new adventure has opened!
But, what about you? Are you making the right choice for you? Or, are you, like so many ready to put your dreams on hold and make what others are saying is “the right choice?” Now don’t mistake determination for bitterness. I made choices throughout my life and have lived a beautiful adventure with my bride and our children. But, in these final years which inexorably end in passing through the vale of life and entering eternity, I want, not the dreams of my youth, but of my today, of my now, of my own choosing.
For those just beginning the journey, make the right choice for you! For those lost in the busyness of the journey, make the right choice for you, and for those of you looking more closely at the end of the journey, make the right choice for you.
