I had all my best ideas when I was a child & I have decided to spend adulthood trying to remember them (unknown author)

It brought to mind something that I have always pondered: The “Doing what you love” vs. “Loving what you do” conundrum. To my mind, it always seemed to be akin to the “chicken or the egg” causality dilemma. The source of such dilemma, I presume, is the void created by the elusive luxury of choice: we can’t always choose to do what we love, right? Life throws a lot of curveballs  and questions at us, and we often have to make what we deem to be unfavorable choices. Compromises, we call them.

The “solution” to this dilemma, I believe, is a very personal one. It is a solution that you will not find in bestselling self-empowerment books or motivational talks. It is often vague and obscure, but you need to realize that rather than hunting it down, you’re going to have to hammer it out yourself. You’re not trying to find or capture it, but rather you are trying to make it. That is why it is not very clear-cut and obvious. That is why you will have to make repairs, adjustments and changes along the way when things get broken. And things will be often broken.

I know that because this is what I am currently trying to do. There is a lot of hammering out and shaping taking place, and I don’t know when I’ll “get there”or “have it”, but I have a feeling that no one is ever fully “there”, because then there would be no point in going on. I think it’s more like a perpetual work-in-progress.

What I do know for sure is that those childhood ideas were too many and I’ll try to remember as many of them as I can. I don’t think the pet lion or live shark in the swimming pool are things I am going through with though.