So you’re trying to figure out what you’re going to be when you grow up. The problem is you’re 38, have two grown children and a husband, not to mention two cats and a dog named Sirius Black Dixon. Oh, wait, sorry, I guess I got distracted and thought we were talking about me.
Back to you. You’re physically “grown,” but you haven’t found your “one true path.” You dont know yet what youre going to do with your life, and youre feeling lost, confused, and worried.
Okay, let’s start with the brutal truth here. If you have spent a lot of time, effort and creative energy looking for your one true path, I have bad news.
You probably don’t have one.
You see, people who have one true paths know they do and they know what they are. This is not always true. Nothing is always true. But in general, people who home in on one career do it early and stick with it, or if they change careers, they do it in a reasoned, considered way.
People like us, who stumble and bumble and jumble from one thing to another to another to another, we don’t have one true path. We have something. Its just not...