I had an epiphany today . . . it was kinda messy.
Posted on September 27, 2006 in the Uncategorized category
5:10 A.M.
Looking into the mirror, I had to do a double take.
“Is that a zit on my chin?!” I thought out loud. “Soon I may make it through puberty . . . after all, I hear the worst of it is over now that I am 27.”
On a more relevant and serious note, I really did have an epiphany today.
I AM EXACTLY WHERE GOD WANTS ME TO BE.
By no means was this an easy decision to come to . . . whether concious of it or not, I have been fighting this battle for at least 15 years. Before I even knew what the fight was about, I have always questioned my decisions - usually basing them on what other thought. I struggled to figure out what I wanted to be “when I grow up” - as I am sure most people do. When it came to college, I think I tried 3 different majors over 6+ years - and contemplated at least a dozen others. I still do not have a degree :O)
The trouble with each and every one of them was the end result was the same:
I would be trading time for money.
Nowhere in my being am I able to find a single cell that is willing to do that. I find it sad and absurd that people feel this is what they have to do. Don’t get me wrong - I truly believe that certain people are called to various station in life, filling jobs/careers without which society could not exist. I am not talking about them. I mean the people that do what they do because that is what society deems acceptible. The may be “happy” with their job - or at lease they don’t hate it. But I would guess that more than 3/4 of them would rather be somewhere else - anywhere else than at work. And why not!? The last thing I want to be doing is living someone else’s dream - we have our own that are every bit as legitimate but somewhere along the way we settle.
Up until a year ago if someone asked me what I was (i.e did for a living) I would tell them I am a _____fill in the blank. The blank being whatever I was doing for work at the time. Now if someone asks, I would tell them I am a stay at home dad and entrepreneur. Being a full-time dad is something I can be proud of and becoming an entrepreneur is something I have wanted to do for over 10 years. I always knew that there was somehitng mor for me than bosses and cubicles.
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