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Choose Your Own Adventure
As any flavor of artist, you get to choose your own adventure.
When I was a kid, there were these books called Choose Your Own Adventure. You’d read up to a point — and then you got to choose from a couple of options. Then, you turned to the appropriate page to read the outcome of your choice.
Funny thing is — life is, when all is said and done, a choose your own adventure book. Everyone chooses what their life’s adventure looks like.
Artists choose an adventure where they share themselves to inspire, empower, enlighten, and generally impact the world around them. The forms this takes are wildly variable but familiar.
Writers, painters, actors, chefs, weavers, singers — the list goes on and on.
The truth is — EVERYONE gets to choose your own adventure. But along the way, we tend to lose that.
Why? Because of expectations, definitions of “normal”, and external factors that lessen and play down the adventure of life.
To be fair, some people enjoy working in an office, doing customer service and tech support, teaching, and every other job you can imagine. When that’s your passion and it makes you happy — more power to you.
