How is it that we choose our path in life?
I have always felt that life is a journey consisting of many paths. We get to pick and choose our path, sometimes there are many choices or a just a few. I’ve always found that I try to choose the best possible path, but how do you measure what “best” actually it?
It is interesting to understand why we choose the things we do. For me personally, I’ve always tried to focus my attention first on what brought me joy. I wanted to find more of those. I loved mathematics in school it was the only thing that I felt I was good at besides video games.
The choice to study math surprising enough, brought a lot of criticism into my life. People making claims that I would be unemployable or I could only ever be a teacher. I taught for three years, while in graduate school and it was one of the greatest experiences I’ve ever had.
I never really felt the need to justify my choice for math, I simply found a part of myself there. There is something so enjoyable about working with abstract concepts. It goes back to my childhood where I loved building things with Lego. I would build with the instructions at least once and then I wanted to re-imagine it and create something for myself. I had to find my way to expressing my ideas.
For me, choosing a path in life hasn’t always been easy
Sometimes, I stress about it wondering, if I am making the right choice. When that happens, I remind myself that I am the type of man that decides quickly and changes slowly. I chose many things in my life early on and I find myself expressing the same truth in many ways. The same beauty that I found in mathematics, I found in physics, poetry, writing, cooking and so many things.
My life is by no means a perfect life and it certainly isn’t for everyone. One thing that I think is for everyone is the need we all have to express our truth. Depression is the opposite of expression; the hardest thing is to be yourself in a world that says you aren’t good enough.
Nature allows you to be yourself, I discovered that during my three years in Hawaii. We are the stories we consistently tell ourselves, what stories do you tell yourself? What stories do you have to let go of to better express the fullness of all you are?
These are some of the questions that I ask myself along my journey. It’s liberating realizing that we aren’t restricted to things that no serve us. If you’ve enjoyed this post, please do me a favor, share it and sign up to be notified of future posts.