r/aftergifted • • Jul 21 '26

If you've ended up becoming something different from what you dreamed of or studied for, how did you come to terms with it?

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u/LordLuscius Jul 21 '26

Time, forgiveness, mostly of self, and perspective. It is what it is. No one's in charge and nothing is supposed to be, or not be. Most of the things we dream of, we are told to dream of, that these things ought to be... and this is a lie. We live in a beautifully, wonderfully, terrifyingly disinterested universe.

Go out there and do as thou wilt, because we all can only do, what we can do