A short first-person recount by Jannecke Øinæs describing a 2012 ‘aha’ moment at age 30 when she realized she did not want to become a primary teacher despite respecting the profession. She explains struggling with a musical-theater dream and, in a sudden revelation, deciding to travel the world to interview spiritual teachers about life’s big questions.
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So now, When I was 30 years old in 2012, I was sitting at this cafe and I said to my father, you know, I'm not really inspired to become a primary teacher. It's a very beautiful job. It just feels like it's not for me. And my big dream was to become a musical theater artist. But I struggle so much with my voice. As a 30 year old, I was like, what am I going to do in life? And all of a sudden I had this clear moment where I said out loud. And it just came to me, you know, Father, what I really want to do is to travel around the world interviewing spiritual teachers about the big questions of life. And it came so clearly, and it was like this light bulb went off in my head and I said, oh, my goodness, that is what I'm going to do, Father. That is what I'm going to do. And he didn't understand much because it seemed like I was just, you know, taking off. I was like in this hallelujah state.