So, you want to become a (insert profession here).  That’s awesome.  It might not be a good choice for me, but it’s not my life you are deciding for, right?  It’s perfect for you and you know it without so much as a doubt.  It was who you were born to be.  I applaud you.

Now there are a few things that ring true.  I’m a pretty large guy.  I’ve got some fluff around the my parts – I define it as ‘protection’ for my more sensitive internal organs – so while I may want to be a ballerina , unless I lose some ‘fluff’ that just isn’t going to happen.  I’m also ill coordinated and tumble sometimes seemingly just for the fun of it.  I’m a mess.  I would never prance, but plummet.   What I’m trying to say is that it’s great to know what you want to be but don’t set yourself up for failure.  But if being a ballerina was my life’s calling, I would strive to lose weight, learn to be more graceful, and practice the art I’ve chosen until my dying day.  I would become that ballerina.  A shitty one, but, a ballerina none-the-less.

I would try.  A lot of you don’t even get that far.  You tell yourself, or figure for yourself, what you’d like to be when you grow up and then you stop, or, you try it out for a few weeks and after a road block or two you give up on your dream all together.  Why?  Was it too tough?  I guess you hadn’t wanted it that badly to begin with.  That is perfectly fine as I’m sure you’ll find what you were really meant for someday.  Perhaps being an elephant wrangler wasn’t your purpose after all.  Now you know.

I’m an artist.  I’m a writer.  I haven’t had mainstream success as of yet but that is alright.  It’s hard to get my message out.  It sometimes feels pointless to put up pieces of art for people to see because sometimes it absolutely feels like no one is looking; no one gives a shit about artists.  (until that one day they realize that everything is art and I mean everything, and, without it they’d be lost and lonely and bored without artists, actors, writers….)

Artists control the world’s emotions through pictures, films, song, and words.  That’s a pretty big thing to tackle.  It’s hit or miss sometimes but we try.  Anyway, it’s a job well worth total devotion and that was the purpose to this post.  Find something that you can give total devotion towards and you will find bliss, happiness, and the ability to love what it is you do, whatever it is you do.

The only thing stopping you from doing that is you.