The calling of man is inevitable. Everyone has its call. Everyone has its path to take. Everyone has to determine for himself the life, the life that he should be living. The call or vocation is the one’s fulfillment in life.
As the river flows and the sun shines, many things will grow. The plant that is nourished by water and energized by the sun as well as the animals that the same causes affects them in their growth. Knowing oneself or simply self-examination, too, affects my vocational growth. Self-examination is the sun that gives light to my being. My being that was darkened, the being that was hidden. Now it is a being illumined and opened. Even on the day of the dawn of Socrates in my life, self-examination is no longer new to me. I came to know Socrates when I got in touched with philosophy, but self-examination was practiced for I came to determine my vocation. Knowing oneself is like stairs of events. It is based upon levels. Each level will prepare me for the other level which is more difficult and more concentration requires. My vocation grows as I know myself. The moment that I determined my vocation opened the avenue of maturity. Maturity in a way that my life must have direction, must have conviction and must have the satisfaction of who I am, where I am and what I can do. Then self-examination again, then it brought me to another level and so on and so forth.
Self-examination is integral to vocation. It is a process. It is dynamic. Knowing oneself will be unlimited, and on the time that I’ll die then it would stop.
