What's Your Destiny?

I am 26 yrs old, about to be 27 and I really have no definite direction in my life. I hate admitting that, but I have not yet chosen a path I really want to take. In one of my last blogs I mentioned that I want to do something creative...the question is, where do I start?

I have so many interests: acting, writing (screenplays, stories and poetry), photography and a few different behind the scene positions in films. I want so badly to be a person who has that one thing that captivates them and they can't think of anything else. But I'm not, my dream is to be multi-facted and do extremely well in at least most of those things. I know it's dreaming big, but there is no other way to dream in my opinion. Why dream at all if you dream small?

For years I have just tried to stick with one thing at a time and it never quite works out. So, what I've decided to do in my time of unemployment (yes, I know that's wack, but it's the truth, I'm unemployed)...I've decided to try my hand at more than one thing at a time. Maybe I'll discover something about myself that I never knew before. Maybe doing more than one thing that I enjoy will help me to find my niche. At least that's what I'm really hoping.

As of now, I am going to be doing some amateur photography, and I'll be improving my poetry and blogging. I used money that I should use for food and bills and bought a camera and some accessories, I still have the internet and writing is always free . So these three things should successfully fill my time while I am figuring out my health condition and while I am looking for a job that will not bore me to death.

It totally sucks that I have to do all this for free, but the best part is that I don't have any deadlines and no boss. You gotta take the bad with the good . And yeah, I hope this makes me become a little more organized. I'll have to be if I want to do all that interests me.

Anyway, I wrote this to air out just a litte more dirt about myself. And to encourage anyone who feels that they don't have a way to do what it is they dream of, to just step out on faith and do it. Sometimes working for free is the best way to get experience and to get people to notice your worth. I will let you know how this all works out. I might even post a poem (but that's a big might).

The inspiration for this posting is from another blog by K. Njapa (I hope her name is right), called The Snap Project. Krista reveals that she is a person who has always had lots of ideas, and is now pursuing her desire to photograph. I totally understand where she is coming from, I have so many ideas and so many of them I think, have the potential to work.

Reading that she has many ideas and the fact that she gave in to at least one of them (while having a husband and children) made me realize that as a single woman I could really be doing things that I feel are worthwhile. Thanks Ms. Njapa for writing such inspirational entries on your blog.

JB