Sarah took that lesson seriously.
At school, she was the student who stayed late to finish an assignment rather than leaving it until the next morning. At university, while many of her friends were still trying to decide what they wanted to do with their lives, Sarah already had a clear goal.
She wanted to become an architect.
She worked her way through university, graduated with honors, and gradually built a successful career. Architecture suited her personality. She loved taking an empty space and imagining what it could become. She liked structure, detail and the idea that something beautiful could be created through patience and careful planning.
By her thirties, she had achieved many of the things she had once dreamed about.
Professionally, she was successful.
Personally, however, life had been less predictable.
Sarah had been engaged once before. She had believed that relationship would end in marriage, a home and perhaps children. Instead, her fiancé eventually admitted that he wasn’t ready for marriage.
