Well, church can be a funny place to be but no matter what your faith is, there can be some things that pastors speak about that are worthy of your thought.

At a recent church gig I played, the speaker brought up a survey in which modern young people (I assume aged 8-18) were asked what they wanted to do when they grew up. The majority of the answers were , " I want to be famous". Apparently in the past, answers shared in a similar surveyed had noticeably higher variety of answers. And I do remember this...as a young child, all of us used to share our dreams to each other and answers were usually specific. "I want to be a fireman, I want to be a lawyer, I want to be a doctor, I want to be a football player"...etc

Now, I guess you could never really trust what a very young person has to say about their future but these findings are still a bit off-putting to me. I mean, it would be no surprise that most people actually ended up doing something else other than what they might have once blurted out on a playground (and are still happy as a result) but at least their life included a pursuit of a vocation...a calling...a search for self. When I interpret this survey, I have no option other than to believe that we now live in an age where it is far-fetched for someone to take pride and nurture what their dreams are. Or at least, people tend to lack a personal opinion on what it is that they are (or at once were) passionate about. Instead of growing and nurturing a gift, we compromise it.