Don’t take your music to your grave.

Few companies practise family values. We are working 50 plus hour weeks. The stocks are in free fall. Bush continues to rattle his sword. Savings are falling. Debts are rising. Priests are touching. Africans are starving. Wow. Wow again.

So. You are either wrapped up in academia or already in a career. A career that hopefully leads to motivating responsibility and decent pay. But are you? Are you being you? Are you finding meaning? Are you expressing joy? Is your job cool? Is it faster-better-funner? Is that white picket fence going up, just like society recommends.

In our culture, we fickle humans are lucky to have so many choices (maybe too many). There is a vast landscape before us, littered with infinite possibilities. Writer, lawyer, doctor, actor, clerk, athlete, or bum. Each possibility, each career, can snare us and wrap us in a warm cocoon. What happens when that cocoon becomes cold and uninviting? Well now - we may have to actually think about our real passions? It may come as a soft voice tickling the back of your neck. Now you have to do something about that soft voice! Oh uh! Speak to it, listen to it, and follow it. It may lead you to another career. Another lover. Another philosophy. Another meaning for your life.

Being smart has nothing to do with it. Just take a risk. Use your common sense. Express your desires. Hold on to that soft voice like your life depends on it. It may.

The world will try to knock you flat. Our culture tries to mold you into a proper government abiding, consumer machine.

Listen to that soft voice.

It has no age.