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you can take an opportunity that seems small, a group meeting for an hour once a week let's say, and if you really commit and put a lot of effort into even a small opportunity, if you work to prop open that passageway, then you will find that it can surprisingly quickly multiply into many future possibilities, many future paths.

one of the members of your small book club desperately needs a babysitter for the weekend. that's a gig. another one hits it off with you on some obscure topic. the bulletin board at the place you meet has a flyer for a class on writing. you go, and now you're in an environment full of other people who are there for the same reasons. talk to them. over drinks one night an older member encourages you to apply for uni with one of your short stories you wrote for the class. et cetera.

I spent a lot of time paralyzed with indecision, trying to find just the right opportunity to get me where i wanted to go. that's the entirely wrong way to go about it. practice pursuing possibilities is more important than optimizing your choice of path, waiting for just the perfect opportunity to magically drop into your lap. It likely won't happen like that, it's not necessary, and you don't need to live your whole life at once. Frodo didn't arrive at Mt Doom by making the optimal choice on the first crossroads out of the shire.

[ID: 2 snippets from plays. The first is dialogue between Agamemnon and Klytemnestra. Agamemnon says, “Klytemnestra, I need you to listen — Klytemnestra.” Klytemnestra says, “She was a part of my body.” Agamemnon says, “I don’t want to do it.” Klytemnestra replies, “Then don’t do it.” The second is dialogue between Creon and Chorus. Creon says, “The task is there to be done. They say it’s dirty work. But if I didn’t do it, who would?“ Chorus replies, “Why must dirty work be done? … And now you are alone, Creon.” This is followed by the stage direction, “(He turns and faces away from Creon.)” End ID.]

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