The life in front is more important

There's very little waiting to finding out what you want to do in life. Exploring, testing. choosing, accepting, rejecting. learning. relearning, unlearning. in a world filled with possibilities. Now, get out there and explore! The sky's the limit….actually, the sky is no longer the limit, lol. Taste, touch, smell, feel. think. move etc. Imagine you go to sleep during a thunderstorm ,and cyclones emerge from under your bed. You get drenched in holy water, a divine lightning strikes your head and everything figures itself out magically in your brain. That is not going to happen, is it ?

God helps those who help themselves. Don't wait. Start exploring. It is only by trying things out that you would be able to figure out what you're interested in or what you want to pursue later in life. There would be some or the other thing you connect to, something that you can live by for the rest of your life. I am supposing (because your question is less specific) that you're talking about a career decision, or maybe take that as an example if your question was related to something else.

Read a couple of books and try doing a small project on embedded systems. Try teaching kids and see where it goes. Try managing a social gathering at your home. And for things you can't put your hands on in a practical sense, like maybe surgery, try reading about it, and research a little on how to go about it. You'll align with something or the other. And don't just hop on things. Find your objective in doing them. Now your objective maybe anything from social causes to personal interest to earning money, or a hybrid of many objectives. But a strong and high aim is the foundation of life. You should have a new purpose after all. The ‘realisation’ may evolve a little bit late, and after many mistakes but don't give up. See it as a journey.

Also, this thing about finding a 'passion' that drives you crazy is very hyperbolical and exaggerated. I feel that if you are decently pleased by what you are doing and you have an emotional anchor with it, you're going good. By emotional anchor I mean that you are either emotionally attached to the job you're doing, like a teacher feels about imparting knowledge or your companions at work are really close to you and you like working with them or you are doing the job to raise funds for your child's education and your child is the centre of your universe etc.

If I tell you, are you going to do it? Put the phone down after you read this. Just get off the couch. Take a sheet of paper and write down top 3 things you want to have in your life. Better yet, take a cork board and pin the images of your top dreams. Every morning ask yourself what are you going to do today to get closer to your dreams. Every evening, ask yourself if you've done what you promised yourself. That's it. If you do the above, your life will change. This one guy I knew, used to say the word, “Ah” a lot. It was like his beginning of every remark. Before I knew it, I began saying it too. And suddenly it was my trademark. “Ah, thank you!” “Ah, not really.” “Ah, perhaps.” Now that's who I am. A person who says this word a lot. As I began to think about it deeply, I realised just how many such words, traits and beliefs I picked up from random people here and there and turned them into my identity.

I think that's what life is. Bits and pieces of all the things you have ever read and all the people you have ever met. You are made up of every place you have lived in and every person you connected with. Try to observe the next time you talk to someone you have ever been close to. If you look hard enough, somewhere you will find yourself. Many ways to go about it. You choose. You can sit and wait or go out there and get it. Not all who went all out got everything and not all who sat and waited got nothing. At the end it is about what you want? If you don't know then go out have fun without any expectation. That's even better. Cheers!