Harry Potter Analogy

Recently (and weirdly), three people near me talked about a lesson from Harry Potter. At the end of the first book (Sorcerer's Stone), the sorcerer's stone goes to Harry Potter, not Voldemort. The one who craved the stone failed, and a boy who didn't intend to own it got the stone. 

It has also happened a lot in my life. I never planned to come to the US for my PhD, but luckily, I got the opportunity from my advisor when he visited Korea for three months. My internships, which became a good learning opportunity for this full-time job, were not from what I really wanted to join or applied but from somewhere unexpected.

If you crave it, you become anxious and hasty, making it difficult to focus on steady progress. Maybe, instead of fixating on what I really want, just becoming a better self bit by bit is the right way to go.