"Instead of searching for some type of ultimate mission, you should try and figure out what makes you happy and where your skills lie." Sensible, but I say kee

"Instead of searching for some type of ultimate mission, you should try and figure out what makes you happy and where your skills lie." Sensible, but I say keep searching for the ultimate mission too. "It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat." - Theodore Roosevelt, 1910 Is this too romantic? Because in that ethos I find food for the soul.