Unexpected inspiration
Last night someone told me something kind of funny that I’ve been pondering ever since. I was down at Baywalk in downtown St. Pete with some friends, and we were in a little fossil shop called “Lost in Time.” My friend Henry (who is obsessed with dinosaurs and all things prehistoric) struck up a conversation with the owner, an ex-hippie-paleontology-guru.
The guy was really happy to see a bunch of Eckerd students in his shop (especially students who knew a thing or two about natural history), and told us to study hard and do whatever we love the most. In his own words, “Do what you love and you’ll never have a job.”
It was meant as kind of a joke, but he was also serious. If you’re actually doing what makes you happy, it’s not really work at all. Albeit, depending on your field of study it might be near impossible to get a job, but when you’re doing what you like, it doesn’t really matter.
Last week had been really tough, so I guess that’s why his words of advice made me stop to think. It was one of those weeks where everything is goes wrong, stress levels are high, and it seems like there’s no end in sight to all the homework due.
It’s really hard to love what you do when what you’re doing makes you want to cry, but the effort always pays off if you believe in yourself and your ambitions. And through all the great adventures I’ve been on thus, I have no doubt that I will continue to do what I love for the rest of my life (and probably be jobless!). ;-)
All kidding aside though, I believe more than ever now in the importance of following your dreams. No matter what you like to do, find a way and do it.
The same night we met the fossil shop owner, we also went to see the movie “9.” Coincidentally, the last line of the movie offered similar inspiration: “this world is ours now. It's what we make of it.”
On that note,
Peace out.
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