Sometimes I think library science as a career just fell in my lap. In this work I’m able to plan ahead and therefore have few deadline pressures. Yet my first ambition—journalism—would have been filled with those very deadlines which I dread most.
What benign destiny altered my life plan for the better? I can claim no credit for this, because I gave up on the idea of journalism and opted for library science for all the wrong reasons.
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Many of our life decisions—as we “remember” them—may be based on myth. The “reasons why” that I’ve told myself may have had no basis in fact. We construct a fiction in retrospect that sounds more rational than the decision was at the time. Or am I just more of a mythmaker than the average person?
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Individuals sometimes “fight all the way” decisions that are providential. This learned from reading anecdotal accounts of heavenly guidance.
Perhaps our “wrong reasons” are actually “right reasons” in disguise and we just fail to see the Divine Guidance. I do agree that we are myth makers. I’ve woven many.