The world is your lobster
- Aug 15, 2013
- 2 min read
When I was growing up, I knew my life would be broken up into three stages: school, university and the rest of my life. The rest of my life: that 40 odd years when I would be working in a career that I had to decide on when I was 17.
Ten (ish) years later, I'm reassessing that whole concept. Because now, I'm still not really sure what I want to do with "the rest of my life". At that age, I decided that I was going to study physiotherapy. To be honest, I didn't put a great deal of thought into it. I sort of wanted to have a health related career, but I didn't want to be a doctor, and I wanted to do a degree that led to one career, so that I wouldn't have to make more decisions after I finished university. With those thoughts in mind, the forms were filled out and the process started.
Ten years down the line and I almost feel like I'm back at the start, back at the decision making stage. ........And it's got me thinking.......
How do we decide what to do with our lives? Why does it even matter? Is there something we are meant to do or designed to do?
I want to take a few blog posts to look at this because it's a huge topic and deserves some attention. So, watch this space over the next few days; I'll look at commitment vs change, the things that affect our choices and which of them matter, how we work and study in a healthy way and why this is all so important. If you have anything related to this that you think needs to be discussed, feel free to post a comment (on here or facebook) and we'll get things going (love a bit of audience participation!)
With regard to the title...I have a good friend, who will remain nameless for the sake of his dignity. He is a really smart guy, really. When he was leaving school, he was discussing the future with his headmaster (feel free to correct me on that, mate ;) and told his headmaster that the world was his lobster. Close. Lobsters, oysters, all the same, right? (Thanks for the inspiration). There is a huge world out there, with more options than ever. Oysters, lobsters, starfish, dolphins, whatever...we have choices to make. If you're in that place, even if you're not right now, I hope the next few posts will make you think a bit, help you see the options that are there for you, help you see the things that matter. Watch this space...
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