ordeal ideal

I had a friend in college who was a great keyboard player. His specialty was church organ music. He even had a real organ in his little apartment. He LOVED to play the organ and wanted to be a professional organist for a church.  It was his ideal.

But his father wanted him to be a banker. So, he worked in a bank as a teller. That was his father’s path for him and he didn’t have the guts, at that point anyway, to confront his father, OR himself, and take the path he really wanted to take.

He wasn’t living his ideal, he was living an ordeal.

Tell us the story of your ideal and your ordeal. If you have achieved or are on the path to your ideal, tell us how you made that change. If you haven’t made it but want to, tell us what you think might be stopping you.  Your stories will help others so don’t be shy to tell them.

Drawing, commentary AND quote by Marty Coleman, a man who lets his fingernails grow too long.