@The Dilemma of 'The Calling In Life'@

Is there a thing called passion or rather what we say 'the calling in life' and if there is then for someone who died cleaning toilets and gutters , are we ready to accept this as his calling or do we believe that only the chosen few in this world get that privilege . The existentialists would of course deny the possibility of such a calling for they believe in the freedom and choice of each individual therefore each one's calling is a matter of his or her own choice . If that be the case how is anyone to decide his or her calling. Death is supposedly the best thing that could have happened to man. In the face of immortality would you and I have been able to prioritize and make choices and thereby decide upon the calling of life. The fact that we all have a limited time here on this earth to choose and enjoy, to choose and suffer accordingly is perhaps what helps each one of us to prioritize. As per existentialists if we go believing that essence is a matter of choice which follows existence with no prior given nature , how is man to decide his calling. The very fact that a person makes a choice , chooses one over the rest , implies he has a guiding principle which in turn emphasizes that he has a certain nature in accordance with which he made the choice . I also agree to the fact that often this principle is a matter of choice , but even then, the fact that man makes a choice in terms of his principles, again implies that there lies a given nature which overrides the principle and thus helps man to choose. The choices that we make are all towards the same end( seek pleasure and avoid pain) and so it is akin to saying that a multitude of roads start and end at common points. The choices that we make are perhaps then an illusion we tend to indulge ourselves to achieve the common end. In such a scheme of things the choices are all significant or insignificant . Their worth depends solely on the amount of importance we attach to it and also by its coherence with the given nature . This nature of man is the pursuit of pleasure or satisfaction and the abstinence from pain or discontent.