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May 24, 2014 at 2:42 pm #57241fuad muradParticipant
Hey guys, first of all I’m so glad I found this forum where there’s so much love and good advice and genuine care for people’s feelings.
I’m 29, engaged to a loving albeit somewhat nagging and imature fiance who is 26. Her and I have been together for almost 3 years and have been through rough times.
We were friends and got into a relationship at a point in my life where I felt like I needed change. I had just quit my job and decided to move and live in another country where I felt I would be able to live out my dreams and ambitions. It was also at that time when my father was diagnosed with cancer, right after I had quit my job and decided to move. Naturally, I decided to put my plans to move on hold and be with him.
I had explained to her at the time my situation, and why I had quit my job and what my ambitions were. I find it very difficult to work for anyone and wanted to start something on my own. My passion is music and I am a music producer. I’d told her that I prefer not to have a job and that I would try and make money on my own and create my own work. This of course is not an easy task and for the following year or so up to this point I have not been able to get my business up and running, and of course my father was still sick and I couldn’t leave him and move half way across the world.
My father passed away in November. And his battle with cancer took its toll emotionally, psychologically, and physically. After he passed, I found myself lost, confused and not knowing where to go or what to do. I still wanted to leave the place I currently live.
I started looking for jobs and got employed a few times within the past 6 months, but found myself leaving those jobs. This in turn created more problems with my fiance. I told her I had decided that I would postpone my plans to leave so that I can get a job, and we would get married and eventually move together. I now have a good job offer on the table, but find myself uninterested in it, and still feel like it’s best for me to leave, get settled where I want to go and then get married.
The problem is I really don’t know what’s best. I don’t know what to do. I’m afraid that this might damage our relationship, and make it seem like I was unsure, and lack confidence. I’m trying to decide whether to take this job and put my ambitions on hold, or let it go and risk being on my own and starting from scratch.
I feel like I’ve put her through alot of confusion and uncertainty and feel guilty about changing my mind once again now, especially that I now actually finally have a job offer. I feel confused about what I actually want to do. I don’t what I should be pursuing. I know that eventually I do want to move out of where I live now, and that I want to have my own music related business. But I can’t seem to find a way to balance that with my relationship and the upcoming responsibilities of marriage. I’m depressed, confused, and always worried and anxious and find myself unable to take action.
I don’t know if I explained myself the way I wanted to but I guess that just shows how confused I really am. I tried to lay everything out in the most logical way possible. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
May 25, 2014 at 4:42 am #57264@Jasmine-3ParticipantHi Fuad Murad
This is a very unusual alias and one, which I have not come across before 🙂
One short and simple advice: do what makes YOU happy. Forget about the world, family and fiancé for once and just focus on your needs. If you are OK, everything will set right into where it needs to be.
May you get the courage to listen to your inner being and soar as high as you can. Make some good music Fuad !!!
Blessings and loads of positive energy coming your way,
Jasmine
May 26, 2014 at 11:59 pm #57448Ricky AliParticipantHi Fuad,
The situation you are facing does sound familiar to me. I experienced something similar but what I learned from that experience was that, coming from considerate family, we often think a lot about the impact of our actions, choices, and decisions on others. This might not be the case always, but most of us are raised that way so we don’t cause any harm to people, we don’t hurt them by our attitude and behavior etc.This is all good stuff and I am not saying that we start to act selfish or hurt others. What I am saying is that it is your ‘intention’ that matters the most and sometimes if you have clean intentions, you should not hesitate to make some bold decisions in life. Unintentionally, you might hurt somebody in someway, but you have to be honest to yourself to make sure that you did not have intent or purpose to hurt someone. Whether you call it science, religion, or whatever, the bottom line is that two things can never have same priority and we have to make a choice-that is where the biggest confusion starts in life.When it comes to relationships, the reality is that we live in a materialistic world. It might sound harsh, but practically, it is almost impossible to find a life partner who will take the risk to be with someone who might have big dreams and ambitions, but not much to support those dreams, or each other. In my own opinion, we don’t really have to give up on our dreams and passion, but there is nothing wrong in having the same passion and dream, but change our perspective to follow them.
Anyone with passion for own business will never be happy working for a 9-5 job, but the fact is that working for someone or taking any job is just a part of your strategy to follow your passion and eventually establish your own business. If you keep that in mind, you will start developing interest in any job, no matter what, the road will eventually lead to your own business.
Nothing happens in life without a reason.If you are getting a job, it is most probably because that is what your fiance might be praying for so you can be with her.No matter what your beliefs are, the prayers are definitely heard as long as they are clear, precise, and come from heart.So, take it that way. You want to be with her, she wants to be with you, and there is job lined up for you to make it work. If you analyze your present moment, you will realize that at this moment, you have it all. Treasure it and live in NOW. Cheers!
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