Hi, my name is Andy and welcome to Radio Headspace and a Monday morning.

I don't have your parents or whoever looked after you as a child ever asked you when you

were young, what you wanted to be.

I was thinking back the other day, I was chatting to my sister and I was thinking back to

those days and sitting around the table with my parents as a kid.

And they were asking me what I wanted to be.

And it was a tricky time in our household.

There was a lot of tension between our parents who was just before they got divorced.

And I remember kind of the time I was constantly just trying to make them laugh to ease the

pressure in their house.

So the first answer I came out with was I was going to be a priest because I was the most

unlikely candidate to be a priest ever.

And I think I knew would make them laugh.

I laughed and they said no but seriously, like what are you going to be and I said maybe

a clown.

Again, because I thought it was a ridiculous thing to say.

Turns out you know I went on to become a monk and to join the circus.

So who knows.

I sometimes wonder how much of life we decide and we choose ourselves and how much of life

is kind of just happening anyway.

But it requires us to take a first step to be willing to try things that maybe feel outside

of our comfort zone that maybe scare us in some way.

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