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I was 100% there a little over a year ago, when I was working full time at The Apple Store<\/a>. Each day I woke up and felt like I was just watching my life pass by me. Frustrated with God, not because I had a terrible job (honestly \u2013 Apple is an amazing place to work) but because I knew that this wasn\u2019t what I was supposed to be doing.<\/p>\n Ralph Emerson<\/strong> once said,\u00a0\u201cTo be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n I think this resonates with most of us because we understand the struggle in simply being ourselves. With family, friends, advertisements, pastors, and whatever else seems to be telling us to be something in which we know we\u2019re not.<\/p>\n It\u2019s kind of sad that this is where a majority of our lives fall, we choose to give others more control than they should have over\u00a0our\u00a0<\/i>lives. I\u2019d be lead to assume that a majority of the adults in America are not living out their dream, their purpose, or their calling. They somehow started with\u00a0\u201cPlan-A\u201d but took a detour and since then have stayed on\u00a0\u201cPlan-B\u201d.<\/p>\n I think one of my biggest fears is one day waking up and realizing I\u2019ve done nothing substantial with my life. This is partly why I left the Church<\/a>, and why I still don\u2019t go to church<\/a>. I wanted more than the security of a well paying job, I wanted what Viktor Frankl says to be\u00a0the unintended side effect of one\u2019s personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself, for me, the church was not that.<\/p>\n \n<\/p> A while back I started\u00a0following a blogger named Allison Vesterfelt<\/a>.\u00a0I\u2019m not sure how I came across her blog, but I\u2019m glad that I did! Her and her husband Darrell Vesterfelt founded Prodigal Magazine<\/a> in which I\u2019m sure most of you have heard about or come across at some point.<\/p>\n Just as I started following Ally she had made a drastic change in her life and decided to quit her job, move out of her apartment, and sell her things to go on a cross country road trip with her musically talented friend Sharaya Mikael. During this time Ally played as road manager, CD Sales person, and blogger. Though her goal was not only to go on an adventurous road trip, but it was to pursue her dream.<\/p>\n It was anything but easy for her. You can read through her journey of all 50 states, on right here<\/a>.<\/p>\n One of the reason\u2019s I started following Ally was because she was living a story worth reading about. It wasn\u2019t just that Ally was a gifted writer, or a young relatable twenty-something, it was that she did what many of us want to do:<\/p>\n She changed\/altered the course of her life, she threw caution to the wind, and pursued her dream.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Her dream was to eventually become a writer. Though she dealt with the tension of wanting security and safety, in which she found in her day job, but at the same time dealing with discontentment and the feeling of\u00a0something missing. Crazy part is, she not only let go of control and embraced the unexpected, but she fulfilled her dream and since then has been published!<\/p>\n![\"Packing-Light-Ally-Vesterfelt-Andy-Gill2\"](\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/604\/2013\/12\/Packing-Light-Ally-Vesterfelt-Andy-Gill2-300x166.jpg\")
<\/a>This is why I\u2019m constantly looking for people, friends, family, bloggers who go against the grain, despite what society tells them and they chase the story in which they feel they\u2019ve been created for. I feel as if most of you can relate.<\/p>\n