Vocation

It's not the easy way through life, it's a calling. Vox Dei. It will not reward you financially, it will certainly involve suffering, a tested iron resolve and many setbacks. Frustrations will certainly be on one's path, pain... fear.

You don't sneak your way to it, it doesn't fall into your lap. The fulfilment is for the soul, only for the truly spiritual. It lets you look into the mirror proudly. It also brings good to others, based on altruism, a vocation is not limited to the one who receives this summons to reach a goal or a state of mind.

It is always there, this desired ambition. It makes us smile, gets us out of bed, fills us with joy. And sometimes, during sleepless nights, at the end of an anxious daydream, after a painful drop... it steps out and reminds me why we do what we do.

My vocation is Us. The luscious waterfall at the end of the trail. And higher above it, is another waterfall, and then another... until the smallest, purest and most powerful of sources is reached.