Just Pick Up the Damn Phone
It’s You Calling
“Your profession is not what brings home your weekly paycheck, your profession is what you're put here on earth to do, with such passion and such intensity that it becomes spiritual in calling.”
― Vincent van Gogh
Some have said those that have found their life’s purpose, have found their calling. They were either born with an innate talent (Bobby Fischer, Mozart) or had some sort of awakening during their life that made them take action. What really happens then, what is it that moves some people to change their lives completely?
It can look like something just clicks; an understanding that wasn’t there before almost like it comes from some mystical place. Though it sounds dreamy, this idea can lead people to feel like they just don’t have a calling…because you know they haven’t received the call. What I’ve found is it doesn’t happen overnight and there really isn’t some mystical force outside of yourself. You’ve just started asking questions of yourself and took an active interest in who you are. When was the last time you actually asked yourself what do you want, what are the reasons behind the choices you’re making, what are you feeling about your health, job or partner, what would you like to feel instead?
Scary-arse questions right! The kind that makes you cringe, and perhaps not want to read on, but please, please continue. All you need to do is spend some quality time getting to know yourself, and I can tell you right now, it will be awkward at first. You’ve probably been ignoring yourself for years, placating yourself with half attempts at listening, coming up short, saying that you care but then doing things that say the opposite.
It will take time, but you’ll start opening up, you’ll start choosing yourself first and then finally one day…you will get that metaphorical phone call and it will be you on the other line. That call happens when you’re finally ready to listen. Once you actually hear yourself, once you have the courage to truly listen…and know deep within yourself that it’s the truth…that’s when it gets real and you start taking action.