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[ravencallscrows]

Does anyone reading this know what it's like to get The Call™— to just wake up one morning and know beyond question what it is that you're supposed to do with your life?

There are a number of things i enjoy doing. even some for which i have a degree of aptitude, but nothing of which i can see making a lifelong pursuit career. As a result, i'm having a really difficult time focusing in any particular direction or working on a particular project.

I want to finish my novel, but i'm too fucking lazy to work on it. I have a few interesting graphics arts projects in mind, put can't bring myself to take the time to take any of them on. I really like music, but can't make the time to practice anything.

I suppose it's possible to be more dispassionate about things than i am now, but i don't see how. Bleh.

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[arienm.livejournal.com]

Honest to goodness? No.

I deeply admire the people that have (or think they have) a calling in life, that have decided what it is that they want out of it and pursue it.

As for me, I found that I had way too many interests, and that pursuing a single path in front of me to the exclusion of the others was limiting myself. And damn boring. Acepting other things detracted from the original path and didn't let me focus enough on the original one to pursue excellence, but then again what is excellence if it isn't accompanied by a broad mind/horizon?

So far I'm just going with the flow, and I've been condemmend to that place that all teachers refer to as "potential". Blah.

At least I'm happy. :)

[skyewolf1.livejournal.com]

What she said ^. LOL....

I know that there seems to be a lot of potential in art right now for me but...a Calling? I know I enjoy it to the point of loving it but I don't necessarily think it's a calling.

Everyone goes through stages of apathy. Jerry did at the beginning of this year for a couple of months. Go with it, eventually you'll get your passion for things back again... :)

Hugs
Skye

*ahem*

[staxxy.livejournal.com]

I believe that you and I have already had a conversation of this ilk.

And my answer is Yes and No. I know what I am supposed to be doing with my life. I am doing it. In the mean time I can do pretty much whatever else strikes my fancy. I will try to call you sometime tonight. It strikes me that you are suffering from depression of some variety. It is not like you to be dispassionate my dear.

Besides, I miss you and would like to have a little Quality Time (Qtime) with you soon. Maybe you just need a break from the family?

[hottoastermama.livejournal.com]

*hug*

[jeffrey.livejournal.com]

Yeah, actually, I do. But it's not a wake-up-one-morning thing. It's an inkling you get one day, and so you dabble. And you dabble some more, and the inkling grows. And then one day you suddenly realize that your hobby of dabbling has become more important than anything else (outside of your loved ones). It's no longer a hobby, and you find that if you don't dabble you feel miserable and like shit most days. At this point, however, it's probably good to call it something other than dabbling. :)

It took me a long time to realize that writing was what I wanted... needed to do. Don't feel bad if it hasn't happened for you yet, I'm sure it will. And I have to tell you, there are days I feel damn lazy and don't want to go anywhere near my writing, but then I ususally end up regretting it. If I force myself to sit down and just start typing, usually it will come and I will be much happier for it.

Ahh the human, such a mystery. Try to force yourself to do something you don't want to do but you actually really want to do.

We are complex in annoying ways, eh? :)

[skyewolf1.livejournal.com]

hmm, looking at it that way I guess that my "hobby" has become my "calling" :D...

Thanks, never looked at it that way before...

[imsosquare.livejournal.com]

AAAAHHHH! Vanya!!! You're doing it again....


GET

OUT

OF

MY

HEAD

!!!

Come hang out with me. I could use the company. Speaking of, will you and the family (or any combination thereof) be attending my birthday dinner at Kell's this year?

[greenshadows.livejournal.com]

Same/similar headspace here...but (at last!) I'm sensing something on the horizon worth waiting for. Dunno what it is, but it's a pleasing delusion, anyway. :)

Meantime, for your daily maintenance: give yourself something to look forward to, even if it's just a little roadtrip somewhere, something out of your routine. Make some excuse to meet new people. It's through networking that we're more likely to find jobs than checking Help Wanted ads! (advice I need to take myself) but if we don't know many people, we decrease our chances geometrically...

Motivation is the hardest part...but even apathy fades with time. And if it doesn't, get medicated like the other 80% of the population! :b

[wilson-lizard.livejournal.com]

I do, but it's not really job oriented. I tend to get a "call" towards taking certain life opportunities, and sometimes I percieve people as having a "shine", like you and V do. :)