There is a distinction between wanting to make a difference with your life and wanting to devote your life to a cause. I think I fall more into the latter category. In Bujold’s Curse of Chalion, at the end, a distinction is drawn between saints and others, in that saints offer themselves without reservation to the gods of that fictional world. Or the story of Ruth, “whither you go, I will follow”. It’s hard and yet not, to give up the idea of being pivotal, of being important of being a mover and a shaker. Reading a story by