I don't do an amazing job at being present/content when I feel like I'm not where I want to be, doing what I want to be doing. But that's silly.
It's also definitely an entitled, pride thing. I worked hard for four years in college (....on my parents' dime). I 'gave a year of my life' to AmeriCorps (so we live below the poverty-line for a measly year and qualify for food stamps - big woop - some of my students from the organization I worked with during my term of service were supporting families of 5+ on the equivalent of my stipend).
Nowadays, work with/serve coffee to/do life with a lot of beautiful, interesting people. And while this may not be what I imagined my life would be like going on my second year post-college, this is where I am. And until I am somewhere else:
"Listen to your life. See it for the fathomless mystery that it is. In the boredom and pain of it, no less than in the excitement and gladness; touch, taste, smell your way to the holy and hidden heart of it because in the last analysis, all moments are key moments, and life itself is grace.”
-Frederick Buechner
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