Creativity dwindles with age. First, school sucks it out of you, and then corporate work puts the nail in the coffin.
Patterns of normality and absolutes are leaches. Like a mind virus, they try to kill off the imagination and train your organic reflexes into compliant sheep.
If you’re lucky, you’ll have no choice but to follow the siren song of vocation. Suppose that means becoming an artist; if it’s a bank teller, ditto. Follow up your calling way with the utmost passion. To echo Mark Twain, “The secret of success is making your vocation your vacation.”
Never let your ambition slip out of sight. The happiest people chase their human truths to exploit time.
As the musician Brian Eno reminds us, “Try not to get a job. Try to leave yourself in a position where you do the things you want to do with your time and where you take maximum advantage of wherever your possibilities are.”
Following the herd is a mind virus. Ride the mind wave of opportunity instead.