Why Am I the Way I Am?

I started reading Tim Keel's Intuitive Leadership. He is making a case for understanding everything through story. To read his experiences through Highschool into ministry and then into Seminary and back out the other side is to read my story. It makes me truly understand I'm not alone nor is my story wholly unique. All of this made me think back about my families story and why I am the way I am. From one point of view I have always had trouble sticking with anyone thing for very long. I have a breadth of knowledge in many different areas. I have experienced more in my 36 years than others around me. I've struggled from time to time with whether this was a good thing or not. Focus in a persons life allows them to accomplish great feats in a single arena. I've never accomplished great feats in any one field. But I have accomplished lesser things in many different fields. As I thought about story and how it relates to all this I realized that my family background is a seeming mishmash of disconnectedness. No family story was handed down to me at all. No identity through blood. No familial calling. Was I royalty or vagabond? Was there a vocation to which I was destined? Any inherited skills that all men in our family had? Maybe this was why I was so drawn to comicbooks. They gave me a story which I could claim. A destiny and lineage which I could be proud of and attempt to live up to. If my family story is a clue to why I am who I am personally then I make sense. Jack of all trades, master of none, is the certain destiny of an adventurer with no history.