Our jobs are the places where we devote, on average, a third of our entire day, and roughly half of our waking hours. More enduring for many of us than love or even family, it is our job that provides us with definition and structure, yet many of us have made the all-important life-path decision sometime in the late teens or early twenties. Which is why we can hardly be to blame if years or even decades later, we are occasionally rattled by the belief that we may be spending an inordinate amount of time doing something personally un-meaningful.
While we may count our current selves more lucky than our antecedents, forced to warily search the sky for signs of heavenly displeasure, we can’t deny that modern surety has also sterilised day-to-day subsistence. Put simply, the awe is gone. Why does it hail, how does a rocket lift off, and why are we able to eat fresh strawberries in the harshest winter months? Even if we don’t know the direct answers to these questions, we’re sure we could find them out if we really wanted to. The mysteries lay at our disposal, tamed and at our feet, but such surety does not come for free. The men and women of developed nations walk around with the burden of their entire potential on their shoulders. We are no longer kept back by our born circumstances—and every day, we face the full weight of supposedly being able to be whoever we want to be.
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