For it is true, I think, that every person has their own destiny, or what a religious person might call a ‘vocation,’ which has its roots in the Latin word for ‘calling,’ and which can be understood as an invisible mold into which our spiritual selves will fit if only we are able to identify and develop, and put into use, those aptitudes or gifts that are specific to us as physical and psychological beings, and that we in no way ‘earn,’ or ‘deserve,’ but that arrive in us through the accident of our own genealogy, and the evolution of our species, though it is true that our upbringing, and how we are raised, exerts some influence on how, or whether, those aptitudes find their expression in us.