Your first obligation is to carry out the mission you are meant for, not what your father, mother, mate or friends say you should do. Your mission will manifest in you when you decide to listen to the desire of your heart. The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the winderness of your intuition. You can not get there by bus, only by hard work, risking and by not quite knowing what you are doing.
All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without benfit of experience.
The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny. The first responsibility of a human being is to shake hands with himself. If my nation is to be changed, my hometown must be made over.