Does It Matter?

Some of us believe in doing something that we’re meant to do, that we have a calling determined by something beyond our own cognition. That somehow, we can discover what something greater than ourselves intends for our lives and our efforts.

Some of us believe that we’re not meant to do anything; that if we are called to do something in life, then that call is the sound of yourself through some marriage between your external circumstances and your natural predispositions. That what we do is what we ourselves decide is meaningful, whether we decide it deliberately or otherwise.

In some ways, believing one or the other matters. Yet what matters most may be that each of us takes responsibility for what we do to make things better, no matter the reason we pick what we pick. Whether you’ve been given a gift by design, inherited a talent by chance, acquired a characteristic through hard work and perseverance, or some mix of the lot, the thing that makes a difference is how you use what you have to do something that matters.