We all have a path & co-create it with God. We will always get what we ask for, but we should be prudent in our wishes. To look at another and wish for their life is asking for trouble because you never do know what really lies within that person's experience. I find my happiness when I am doing things to create and breathe life into things. I feel appreciated and as though God puts me in the path of people whom I can assist and, in turn, who help me to feel whole. I have found that the times in my life when I am "not doing it for the money" but instead, some sort of greater good, I am fulfilled and alive. Of course, money resulting from creative endeavors is no evil, but eventually the wind will come out of your sails if that is the only end goal.
If there is anything I would like my children to know and understand as they get older, it is that it's okay to like what you like and be who you are. Sometimes you will be ridiculed, sometimes you will be in disagreement with others (even me, your mom ;) about your choices. In the end, your choices dictate your path and whatever path that is, there is a plan behind it. As long as each day you wake up with your spirit intact and live your life respectful of the others in it, your choices will always be "right". So no, Guy-In-The-Parking-Lot-Who-Steals-A-Space-From-A-Teenager-Because-He's-In-A-Rush, you do not get a free pass to be an a-hole to everyone, but if you don't feel like giving up the spot you rightfully found to an old lady who can't find a handicapped spot...so be it your own business.
Everyone deserves the chance to live a life of their own choosing.
“Criticism of others is thus an oblique form of self-commendation. We think we make the picture hang straight on our wall by telling our neighbors that all his pictures are crooked.”
― Fulton J. Sheen, Seven Words of Jesus and Mary: Lessons from Cana and Calvary
“Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.”
― Margaret Mead
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