Please start working on attaining a 4-year degree.
Most people who are full-time students also have other things that they do with their time. Academic enrollment is usually considered to be full-time at 12 credits. However, since you haven't been a student for years, there's no reason that you can't take a couple of classes for your first couple of semesters rather than immediately switching from being a full-time performer to being a full-time student. You could even finish a 4-year degree by always being a part-time student while you do what you want with the rest of your time.
Most colleges and universities have religion classes. Probably, all schools should require that a class that describes the world's major religions and a class that discusses the sociology of religion, politics and society be taken before graduation.
I guarantee you that attaining a college degree will not make you a less spiritual person. It will help you to articulate your feelings about religion, so that fewer people can dismiss what you have to say before they listen to it. You might not have thought about this idea before; you will seldom be able to persuade anyone of anything only by having a lot of feelings about what you're saying. Everyone has a lot of feelings about the things that are important to him or her.
I have to respectfully disagree with anyone who is telling you that your undisputed destiny is to be a pastor. What you need to do first and foremost is live your life. You have had other people imposing their ideas on you about what your adult life should be like since you were born. You're not alone; most people have to spend some time sorting through what they want their lives to be like and deciding what to take and what to respectfully decline about what other people wanted or want them to do.
What you shouldn't do is think that figuring out what you want to do with the rest of your life should be your full-time profession. You have far too much money for full-time introspection to be a safe option; you are also a healthy, young person who will quickly be bored with all of that navel-gazing. Figuring out what to do with the rest of your life is what people who are working and/or students are productively doing; that is not what the idle rich are productively doing, regardless of how devout those idle rich are.
Copyright L. Kochman, August 3, 2017 @ 7:26 a.m.
