I feel like in life you should never EVER EVER settle. Whatever it is that makes you happy, that should be your goal. You should be determined to make it happen ... to be happy! You shouldn't have to settle for mediocre, for alright, for "eh, it pays the bills." You should find your passion and do whatever it takes to succeed in that!
Sounds beautiful, right? Sounds like the perfect plan. Well, it is, if you know exactly what you want to do. If you know what makes you happy and know how to make that happen ... and still be able to live.
Well me personally, I had absolutely no idea what that particular happiness was for me, or how to pursue it ... and, I've just always lacked direction. All I ever knew about me is that I wasn't going to settle. I have two degrees and the entire time I was in school, I was still trying to figure out what I was going to do with myself. Even back in December when I finished school and was working in sports, I still didn't really know.
There were a few things that I have always been certain of though. (1) I love art and expression, and I was always trying to figure out how to get it out of myself. I'm not that great a poetry, or drawing, but I wanted to find my medium. (2) Whatever I did, whether it be sport related or not, it was going to be involved in entertainment. That's broad, I know, but I knew that much at least.
I know I'm twenty-something. I know that the practical thing would be to use my two degrees and get a stable job and buy a house and ... live. But I don't just want to go through the motions of life, and do what I'm supposed to just because I'm supposed to do them. I want to make sure that I am the happiest person that I can be. And for me, that will only come from living with no regrets, from pursuing everything that I ever want to pursue and going all out.
Anyway, I've found something that I am extremely passionate about. Something that makes me want to go all out, to take a change and commit fully. And I know that it's going to be hard. I know that there will be tons of no's tons of rejection, tons of hard times. But, that's a journey that I am prepared to take. I feel like I have a direction now. I feel like I have found something that will give me the joy that life is supposed to give me! I've found my artistic medium. I've found my entertainment .... in acting.
And let me clarify ... I don't have dreams of being famous. I just want to be able to make a living doing it. And I know that it is going to be the hardest journey of my life. But I will never know my potential unless I go at it 100%. While I am young enough to do so. My degrees aren't going anywhere. I still have them, if needed, for the future.
But I know what I have to do ... In my pursuit of Happiness :-)
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