Dignity flows from agency, allowing us to be treated as humans, not cogs.*
Seth Godin

When people truly discover some aspect of their vision and have the opportunity to dedicate themselves to working on it, when they can tell the truth and focus on aspirations instead of on “being less bad,” when they can be themselves, then something changes.**
Peter Senge

Some know from an early age what they want to do with their lives,
Others come to what it is they must do later –
I wanted to be a hairdresser on leaving school, but only lasted three months;
A few years later,
I wanted to be a Methodist Church minister, and this lasted for decades,
But this wasn’t it, there was still something I wanted to be –
I didn’t know what it was and I didn’t have a name for it;
I have since come to call it dreamwhispering,
Because it’s about hearing and
uncovering the hopes and purpose people have for their lives –
It’s the small print to everything I write and doodle;
It’s not a cog-description, and we all have one of these
I-don’t know-what-it-is-and-I-don’t-have-a-name-for-it things,
And they’re all wildly and wonderfully different,
We can’t lay them down at retirement –
They are what we are, and we are what they are.

To live fully, experiencing each moment, aware, alert, and attentive. We are here, each one of us, to write our own story – and what fascinating stories we make.^

*Seth Godin’s The Song of Significance;
**Peter Senge’s The Necessary Revolution;
^Madeleine L’Engle, from Victor Strecher’s Life on Purpose.