Amidst the rush of modern life it is easy to be swept up in reaction to the expectations of the world around us. Every once in a while something happens to interrupt this pattern and cause us to see and experience our life in a new way. Recently, over the course of a few days, I was asked two very different questions that had just that effect.

These two questions sent me searching in opposite directions but ultimately, to my surprise, circled around to the very same answer. And with that answer came an even more pressing and important question: If I know the answer… what’s stopping me from doing/being/creating this now?