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I either ask no questions or I ask too many questions. There isn't much in between. Sometimes that ends up being too many questions for some people's liking. But today it seems like I finally asked the right person the right question at the right time.

All I did was ask my acupuncturist how she arrived at this career. She told me that she was actually 4th generation, but that it was never something she wanted to do. She wanted to be a DJ scratching records. Then a documentary filmmaker. She tried to get in during the writers' strike, but couldn't even get a PA job. She was unhappy and had a realization that she was looking for happiness outside herself and that wasn't making anything better. She wanted to help people and did that by working for non-profits. After a while, she wanted to help in a more tangible way, though, and that led her to acupuncture and Eastern medicine.

What did I get from this? One, stop looking for happiness outside myself. Two, your path may be roundabout (or a full-on windy road), but you'll get where you're supposed to be eventually.