The world buzzes about goals and visions. Focus. Create a vivid picture of exactly where you want to go. Dream big, then don’t let anything or anyone stop you. The problem, as Daniel Gilbert wrote in Stumbling Upon Happiness, is that we’re horrible at forecasting how we’ll really feel 10 or 20 years from now – once we’ve gotten what we dreamed of. Often, we get there only to say, “That’s not what I thought it would be,” and ask, “What now?” Ambition is good. Blind ambition is not. It blocks out not only distraction, but the many opportunities that might take you off course but that may also lead you in a new direction. Consistent daily action is only a virtue when bundled with a willingness to remain open to the unknown. In this exercise, look at your current quest and ask, “What alternative opportunities, interpretations and paths am I not seeing?” They’re always there, but you’ve got to choose to see them.
Before I just write IDK, I Think that the alternative opportunities I'm not seeing must involve money. I have none. Sad day me.
The prompt was beautiful, unfortunately my creative mind can not form any other interpretations at this moment. Though, I do long to be on of path that I can enrich other lives with my kindness, and one day soon be working at either a food bank, or a youth services organization.
"Kindness move mountains" - Dianna Agron
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