Risk-taking has seldom been part of our mindset, much less our behavioral resume. Maybe an application for a job or for an academic program could be the most risky behavior to which we could refer. We are planners. There has not yet been a time in our lives that we did not prepare to enter; no reasonable event for which we did not have the resources allocated; no major life event about which we did not carefully and cautiously contemplate before proceding. Why? Because we are responsible! We take seriously that responsibility to be independent adults. We have never, and I mean never, asked our parents for money. I have always said, “I would have to be starving or living under a bridge before I asked my parents for money.” If they offer, I do not accept. If they force money for assistance on me, I will find a way to repay in whatever manner possible. So, with all of this responsibility in mind, we are stepping out into an unknown arena, without solid plans for success. We have made a decision to leave our entire life’s setting to present and follow our dreams for the future. We just feel there is more that we have been called to give, but we have no clear direction. The only direction we have at this time is that it is time to leave what is comfortable and follow the discomfort into the unknown. Is this a step of faith, or would this be considered pure stupidity? You tell us…
A Chosen Life 