To be doing every day what you enjoy doing is rare. Rarer still is to be doing what you were meant to do, particularly if you got there by sheer serendipity. Until near 30, I’d fully expected to spend my life as a doctor. My present life was never planned or even imagined. An intern at The New Republic once asked me how to become a nationally syndicated columnist. “Well,” I replied, “first you go to medical school. …”

For his full column: http://townhall.com/columnists/CharlesKrauthammer/2009/12/18/an_anniversary_of_sorts?page=full&comments=true

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