TOW: Could vs. Should

These last couple weeks have been fairly pivotal for me because I have been given a lot of opportunities, a lot of chances for activities that I don't normally have. It's funny because I have been invited to parties I wouldn't normally attend, and even gone on a few dates, which is pretty irregular for me. I'm starting to feel more popular than usual. And, as far as I can tell, I'm already too popular. *Sigh* It's a hard life.

;)

The point is, there are a lot of things I 'could' do. I could be a musician, I could be a comedian, I could be a politician. I could be many things, I could do many things with my life, great things, in their own respective ways. I could.

But I won't do those things.

I could be a film star, I could be a reporter, or even an editor of a fancy magazine, heck, I might even be an engineer! (Ha, ha, maybe that's a bit of a stretch.) I could be any of these things.

But I won't be these things.

And that's not sad. The point of life is to find a life that aligns with your values. And, strangely, this relates to my day-to-day life, as well. There are many things I could do. There are many things. But I won't do all of those things I could do. And the reason is not because I am incapable--the reason is because I know the difference between what I should and shouldn't do.

And there are things I should be doing, and there is a kind of person I need to be. And if I'm not working, honestly working, towards the kind of person that I want to be, I'm going to fail. And worse, I'm going to be lost while I try to remember the kind of person I was trying to be. And there's a kind of person we're all trying to be.

I've learned my lesson over the last few weeks. There are many things we could do. But we won't be happy unless we do what we should do, versus what we could.

And that's the way it should be.