A calling usually starts as an itch you can’t ignore, not a voice from the clouds.

Direction tends to arrive as persistent interest rather than dramatic instruction. Something keeps pulling your attention back: a subject, a problem, a group of people you cannot stop thinking about. It is easy to dismiss because it feels too ordinary to be significant, and because it does not come with instructions. Recurrence is the signal, not volume.

List what you have kept returning to over the past two years, without editing for respectability. Look for the thing that appears more than once. Then spend an hour on it this week, just to see whether the interest holds.