There’s so much to accomplish in this life. So much I want to do and don’t know if I’ll have time for.
I’m learning violin but I also want to learn the drums and cello and hammered dulcimer. I want to go on more tours as a lighting guy, and tour as a sound guy as well. I want to sing, leading people in worship and design and build sets. I want to be a technical director again and have a wife and three kids who care as little about sports as I do. We’ll go on nature walks and look at bugs and rocks at gaze through a telescope at night and study the heavens.
I want to become a nurse and work in a hospital helping kids. I want to design the house my family lives in and build little hidden passageways just for fun and have a bookcase that reveals a secret room when you pull the right book out.
I want to finish the song I have sitting half-written on my computer right now.
There’s so little time. There’s petty things like a job and eating and sleeping to get in the way. Some of my desires are at odds with each other. Why does that have to stop me? Can’t I do it all?
Bother.
Exit, stage left.
Sparks
Yes. You can. So here’s what Barbara Sher (good people!) says to do: Find a job you don’t hate, and do all the things you love on the side.
Thing is, you can’t do everything COMPLETELY. You can volunteer in a hospital or become a CNA easily, but to become a nurse takes years of training that you might want to spend traveling the world writing songs and blog posts. You can become a worship leader, singing and being involved in set design at a church, and I bet your sports-indifferent family would be happy to be a part of it. But while you’re there, it’ll be harder to take off for tour. And you can spend all your time learning to become great at a billion instruments, but if you spend ALL your time doing that then you’ll be missing out on jumping in piles of leaves and reading bedtime stories.
You can do it all. Just not at once, and you can’t dedicate yourself to everything.
And I want a house with hidden passageways….
Dude,
I guarantee you that because of this post here your children are now destined to love sports with all their hearts and souls.:)