What are you becoming is more important than what you are accomplishing. A few years from now you will be disappointed not by the things you failed to do but by the things you wanted to do but didn't do. You don't have to prove yourself to anyone or heed other people's advice on how to fix your life - you may fail, you may lose, but failure is never permanent, you can always make a new start. They say that God gives you a direction in life but God too allows U turns.
Some years back a newspaper made a survey - " Who are the happiest people ? ". Four answers were chosen as winners, as follows :
A craftsman or artist whistling over a job well done
A child building sand castles
A mother bathing her baby
A doctor who has finished a difficult operation and saved a life
I got this articles from the book P. S. I Love You : When Mom wrote she always saved the best for you. Its a good book with plenty of inspiring notes - a mother to a son or a daughter.
And of course let me share to you the words of one of the greatest president who guided the United States through the darkest and bloodiest years of its nationhood ;
" If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for another business. I do the very best I know how - the very best I can ; and I mean to keep doing so until the end. If the end brings me out all right, what is said against me won't amount to anything. If the end brings me out wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference. "
Following your heart may not bring you glory, it may not bring you fame and money, but surely it would bring you happiness. The kind of happiness that Oliver Barret had in "Oliver's Story", and Superman giving up all his powers just to have a normal life with Louis Lane.
I have been a bookseller for 26 years and I have met thousands of people who had a common love love for reading. People read books for different reasons but a great majority of them want books irregardless of its genre, to have a touch of romance or sort of love encounters in them. They are always excited to know who gets the girl in the end.
Book readers read to satisfy their taste for knowledge and adventure but they always have a place in their heart for great lovers.
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