12/18/2022
I used to believe that in order for life to be meaningful, it needed to be full of accomplishment. That meant I was fulfilling my potential.
If I saw people that weren’t working towards something, I thought they must be depressed or lost. This was my conditioning.
Most of us measure life. We think if we are working on a promotion, a degree, a business… if we can lift more, run faster, weigh more or less than we did yesterday- then we are “doing something with our lives.” The focus could be having a child, getting married, planting trees, or saving lives… but I now believe the question is not what we are doing or not doing… it’s why.
We often use our passions, our families, our careers, as distractions rather than a path to ourselves. And we can tend to look at the old guy living in his van, or the friend who never finished college or doesn’t have a (prestigious) job… as a failure of some kind… but they can often be much farther along in the process of knowing themselves, of feeling peace, than many of us in the “grind” or the “glory” of accomplishment.
What would we do if we didn’t need money? What would we do if we weren’t taught that looking a certain way or having certain things made us more relevant or lovable? I believe in answering that question, we can find our truest way… to abundance, to purpose, to love, to health and even beauty.. but most importantly we can find our way to ourselves, our higher self-
to peace ✌🏽 ☮️ 🙏🏽🌸
