What if you worked hard to finish a college degree or two. Found a good job that paid well. Married. Bought a house. Had a family.... And, all the while had a tiny sadness that maybe you had taken the easy, level, paved path all along? What if you'd always yearned to sing or invent or swim naked in July but hadn't?
At the reunion, stories of success, transformation, loss and redemption, were often followed by the yearnings. Some of us yearn loudly, others with deep sighs. (Sure, some are probably completely satisfied. Are these the lucky ones or the risk takers?) I think the yearnings are indication of what lies ahead for us.
Meet me at the South Yuba River next July.
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I could hear the "sighs"! Great questions. I am reading a wonderful book right now - "The Art of Non-Conformity" by Chris Guillebeau. He is young but he has already asked those questions.
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