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• What do I do now? posted (1 year, 4 months) ago
  And how do you even answer that question? … I’m in my mid-20s and I have spent more …

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• What do I do now?
  

  Thanks Mayra - definitely inspiring and reassuring words. I’m very grateful - I’m also glad that writing is one of your passions because you clearly have insight and are good with words! :)
  
  All the best with your music and other creative pursuits.
  - written 1 year, 4 months ago

• What do you consider to be the greatest rock band of all time?
  

  My picks are Led Zeppelin for old school, Incubus for, er, new school.
  
  And for something in between, I’ll always have a soft spot for Soundgarden and Pearl Jam…
  - written 1 year, 4 months ago

• What do I do now?
  

  Thanks miskat - and I think you might be onto something with combining interests/talents into a comprehensive and, yes, hopefully a fulfilling whole.
  
  Good luck to you too. :)
  - written 1 year, 4 months ago

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  I totally get where you’re coming from! Childhood events/encounters/traumas can shape how you see the world without you even realising it - at least, not at first. But, as you say, now that you’ve recognised it, you can change it - and power to you. Because every time we let fear like that get in the way of us doing our thing, we’re letting the ostracising, belittling jerks - past and present - win. And who wants that? ;)
  - written 1 year, 4 months ago

• What do I do now?
  

  Thank you all for responding. I think there’s some truth in what you all say.
  
  miskat, I did start my own business too and found ways of doing my own thing. And it was working for a while. But now I’m tired of that too. I’m starting to think that perhaps I am what they call a “scanner” - someone who leaps from thing to thing in life because they don’t want to spend their life just doing one thing. Maybe all I need to do is, as you say, stay close to my feelings and I’ll discover what the next thing is.
  
  On the other hand, Mayra is right - I am conflicted about leaving it behind. What I can’t decide, though, is if it’s because of the investment I’ve made in it, or whether it’s because I genuinely still have my heart in it. I kind of suspect it’s the former - when something is a part of your life for so long, it’s hard to let go, whether you should or not.
  
  And, mumstheword, it’s very true what you say about passion and profession - once the freedom to fail is taken out of it, it can be hard to enjoy things. Then again, I guess I still have the ideal in my mind of having a job I love - whatever it is.
  - written 1 year, 4 months ago

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