While some people come out of
their mother’s womb with a calling attached to their umbilical, some of us
struggle with the decision to choose a single calling even after a second
degree. The indecisiveness is not because we don’t know what we want to do with
our lives but we are just too gifted to be strait-jacketed into one career for
the rest of our temporal existence.
However, it is quite common to
find our parents, guardians, teachers and the larger society baffle us with
their expectations, wishes and goals. Our parents want us to be doctors and
lawyers whereas we also want to write like Jane Austen and paint like Michael
Angelo. Our teachers think we will make good engineers but we also know how to
take the best photographs ever seen. In fact, some of us know how to sing till
angels lose consciousness but we also take delight in nursing people till their
wounds heal. These types of people are called multipotentialites. They are individuals with myriad potentials and
interests to pursue more than one career.