Missed Calling

I have heard people say on a Sunday at my supermarket job, which I am so obviously over qualified for; maybe she missed her calling.  Referring to the fact that I still work this looked down upon job I choose to make my career.  Let's state the facts first.  One, in today's economy it is a blessing just to have a job.  How many people even without mental health challenges don't even have a job and are struggling just to make ends meet.  Two, there are few people with known mental health challenges which have and can keep a job for a long period of time, where I live.  And I haven't ignored or forgotten those that have employment whom have mental health challenges, and that their plight is unknown.  After all I was in those very shoes from age 15 to 30.   

Life goal to travel.  Montserrat 2019.

My question is of all the people born into this world, how many actually have found and performed what they or people may think was their calling?  Not many.  Most people flounder through life surviving, procreating and trying to make the best of what they have been given.  Very few people actually perform what they believe is their calling.  And even fewer do it well enough to be recognized by others that indeed they had found their calling and were successful at it.  With that in mind, does it seem as important to indeed find one's calling?  Maybe not.  It may be just as pertinent to ask is it important to have your calling make you a billionaire?  Maybe not.  That point is for all those who feel the only way to show that you've been a success is by making billions and be recognized by others as finding your calling. 

After 40 years on this planet I have learned that it may not be as important to find or perform what you or others think may be your calling.  I think what really counts is to love and be loved.  Even if that love comes mainly from yourself.  God loved and loves us all, therefore we are loved.  We can choose to love God, a person or even a pet, therefore we can all love.  What also counts is to find ways to make yourself and at times others around you happy.  To do your best to experience things you may have dreamed of, to make your own dreams a reality.  To be responsible and make decisions which benefit you and do not impact those around you negatively.

So I ask you have I missed my calling?  Maybe. Does it really matter to me?  Not really.  Why?  Because I am working with what I was given and adding to it.  I am literally becoming "intelligent".  Which literally means that I am taking what I was given and enhancing it.  Will I become a billionaire?  Maybe not.  But I will enjoy my life as if I'm a micro-billionaire, in ways that make me happy, add to my life, while trying not to affect those around me negatively, yes.  And maybe, just maybe learning to just enjoy my life may very well be the calling for me!