Dear Leila,

Life is too short not to take risks 🙂 if you objectively think “what is the worse that could happen?” And follow your heart, everything will be fine. Money is important to sustain yourself. Have you thought of saving a year’s income for paying bills and then taking that year to follow your passion, who knows, you may never go back to law. Now, if you are not able to create a life of your dreams, you can always come back and get a job or become an independent consultant. I pray a lot when I am stuck and then let it go. Inadvertently the answer shows up – read “the power of the subconscious mind – by Joseph Murphy”. Hope that helps!

Keep smiling,

Dear Tramby,

POM has great advice. What I might add is that, I understand how you feel. My origins are from India and was brought up in a conservative household with a bunch of expectations about how my life should look like. It was great because I though I don’t have to think about anything myself and had a check list to tick off. Life changed when I could not or failed to tick those check boxes, because then I could not impress upon my family that I was up to what they expected. Another realization, was that I was lonely and unhappy, because now I did not have someone give another check list to follow there were a lot of people reminding me how I failed :). Like POM has advised, that is when after much reflection I decided to follow my heart. Even though I had to “disappoint” people’s expectations of me, as long as it was legal, healthy and did not harm any one, I had to follow what I wanted from my life and that certainly is the secret to happiness. “Happiness is a state of mind” and its YOUR mind, not someone else’s. What I did was start reading (I think Tiny Buddha is a great start) and understanding a lot about myself. Then I started going out and meeting people who had bigger dreams than me, bigger aspirations than me. The more I did that the more confident I became of my capabilities. As you can see, the books I read and the people I associate with molded be to become a confident individual and a happy one at that. So go out, breathe the fresh air, hang out with a friend who can uplift you, uplift someone else and you should be able to find answers. NEVER GIVE UP on yourself…

God Bless, wish you the best…