☀️ Arselia and Akonia

—One of the reasons I left my homeland was that I never found a calling that resonated with me, and I wanted to discover it. And if we go back to my early childhood... I guess every day I was someone different, depending on the new fairy tale I heard. A knight of the Round Table, a noble rogue who takes money from the poor and gives it to the rich, Jack the Giant Slayer; yes, our former leader would probably be offended by that, and many other roles. But as I got older, I realized that I didn't have a serious goal in life, and my soul yearned for travel. If I had known that instead of artistic descriptions and worldly wisdom, the world around us is a series of deadly dice rolls for every location, my life would probably have turned out differently.

— Based on my personal experience, I can say that a calling is a rather elusive thing, as is the existence of some great or not-so-great goal. After all, all this often depends on external circumstances. Some hypothetical florist might dedicate a significant part of their life to their craft, thinking they have found their place. But then their kingdom gets involved in a conflict, and priorities change, and their beloved craft takes a back seat. The experience changes them, gives them a new perspective, and they see their future path in a completely different way, even if their interest in their previous craft has not disappeared. We can also take another example, continuing the theme of the aforementioned abstract kingdom. There was a wise king who devoted his entire life to his subjects, but then the kingdom ceased to exist, and the monarch simply has no chance of regaining the throne. Here, whether you like it or not, you will have to look for a new place in life. At any moment, your calling can be snatched away from you, and your life's goal can lose its former meaning. And sometimes, people don't even get the satisfaction they deserve after achieving this goal, but simply ask themselves, "What now?", because the journey was ultimately more important to them than the destination. Perhaps the most important thing in such situations is not to despair and not to forget to live your life, to try yourself in new endeavors. And who knows, maybe you will find yourself there. Because a broken and lost person, obsessed with finding a new meaning, is too tempting a target for various destructive cults. Unfortunately, I have had to see this more often than I would like.