Calling is what? Significance, synonyms, interpretation

The search for a vocation is an extremely interesting topic, which we discussed today with happiness. We will not miss the opportunity and we will talk in detail about human self-determination. We will discuss the meaning of the word "vocation", its synonyms, as well as the ways of finding oneself.

Value

The explanatory dictionary is cold and offers only two meanings for the word:

1. Propensity to do something. For example, "Vasily will become a mathematician by vocation, do not hammer his head with literature!".
2. A matter of all life, an appointment. "Since then, helping people with addictions has become his vocation."

But what can a dictionary know about a true human vocation? This, of course, is primarily a philosophical and psychological problem. Drama, which unfolds separately in each individual life. Misses, hopes of disappointment, when a person chooses one, thinks: "This is it!". Then mirages deceive him, he realizes that he did not choose himself, instead of him, someone else made a choice: relatives, parents, social situation. And he generally wanted the wrong and not so.

Yes, the examples are correctly chosen, and the dictionary speaks the truth, can it be wrong? But history stores the result, and we, among other things, talk about how to find your place in life and not regret it, but first synonyms.

Word-replacements

Calling is a topic that is generally quite difficult, so you can recall the semantic analogues that will help the reader to fix the result, and we, in turn, do not have the habit of hiding it from him. Here they are:

• talent;
• Purpose;
• Abilities;
• Propensity;
• Business (all life);
• Craft (all life);
• Talent;
• gift.

Familiar words. It's not so difficult to find a synonym for "vocation", it's just very easy. How to understand your personal, individual gift, talent, mission? Next on the turn is the mechanism of disclosing one's own fundamental propensity.

When is the first time a person thinks about choosing a path in life?

This happens in 15-17 years. The lower limit is the 9th grade of the secondary school, and the upper one is the final grades. Man is a flexible being, therefore he adapts himself to the requirements of social and biological time. True, there are different points of view. For example, Erich Fromm - a well-known psychologist and philosopher, dropped a phrase in one of his books, that the most favorable time for choosing the profession of the whole life is the age closer to 30. This position has its reasons: the person is already mature enough to consciously choose something . The probability of error is not so great, there are fewer or no fears, because there is experience.

But most people do not have such luxury. The social and biological dimensions of human existence are inexorable. And then it will only get worse, the speed increases every day. For example, in Japan, children at the age of five are forced to take tests, which will determine all their future fate: in which school they will fall, in which companies they will work. But the kids do not know anything about calling yet. The interpretation of this word is all the more inaccessible to them. Therefore, European and Russian children were lucky.

They have a moment of self-determination in the early youth (15-17 years), as already mentioned. Together with the need to choose a way of life, maybe for the first time serious thoughts arise that slow the activity, sometimes harm it. A person becomes aware for the first time of responsibility for his life and his choice.

Trial and error method

To fear, like waves, do not swallow a boy or a girl and do not kill children during this period, they should approach the threshold of early adolescence with a specific baggage: clubs, interest clubs, games of all kinds. Then the process of professional self-determination will not be so painful and painful. Although here we are cunning, for calling means suffering. Some things in life can not be given easily, no matter how much you prepare for them.

Nevertheless, the method of trial and error is still priceless in solving this problem. If a person is not allowed out of the house, not allowed to create and experiment, for him the process of self-determination, firstly, can drag on for life, and secondly, be extremely painful.

The child must try, seek, lose, suffer (within reasonable limits), but find himself. If you are stubborn, then on the expanses of being there will be found the whole life, and possibly several key specialties. The time now is such that in the vocation issue (this is proven by practice) you have to be a "multi-instrumentalist", that is, to understand several areas of knowledge at once.

Is it worth waiting for divine illumination?

There is such a very harmful myth about the destination that there are people who from the very beginning know what they want from life, who they want to be. Especially often this can be heard from writers. Stephen King and Ray Bradbury admitted that they wrote from the age of 12. And the author of "Dandelion Wines" claimed that he issued at least 1,000 words every day, beginning at this very age. Another hyper-popular writer George Martin fantasized about life on other planets years from 4 or 5. And they all say that they always knew: writing is their vocation.

So, this is, to a certain extent, a confluence of circumstances and such irrelevant trifles, of which it is a shame to speak. For example, get modern idols to parents despotic or evil, they would not be like phenomena. King's mother always supported. Bradbury already at the age of 22 had his own literary agent, this before he published his first story.

Of course, when it comes to calling, interpreting words and thinking about it, people come to mind different cases, and here one can not ignore the perseverance, will, character of certain heroes.

For example, if you read Dovlatov, you can find out: some journalists even starved, but did not quit crafts. And this was not because they were frail or arrogant, but simply calling - a mysterious business and not amenable to a mathematical formula.

God or nature creates a man or woman with a certain purpose, but does not reveal the latter to his children, so that it would be more interesting for them to live. Sometimes the destination becomes apparent only in adulthood. Do you remember the famous example of Bulgakov about a man who teaches Roman law for 20 years, and at the age of 21 realizes that he really likes to grow flowers, and Roman law, on the contrary, is not at all close to him? If the reader wants to get acquainted with the passage in its original form, then let's say to him: he is in the novel "The White Guard".

And all because people do not have the courage, and maybe the experience, to live according to one's own understanding and desire from the very beginning. God has nothing to do with it, this is a fight that a man must win himself.