My girlfriend forwarded me an email recently about Oprah's 'Who am I?' journal. The important question here was: 'When I was born, what was the plan for my life?'. Wow. That is WAY too big a question for me.
Then, today, someone posed this question to me: 'What is the purpose of your life as you see it?' Same sort of question, re-phrased. And put in the context of today - if I examine what I want from my life as of today, what is the purpose of my life from here on? This seemed to be a much more manageable question, and it is not phrased in such a way that leads me to believe that when I was born, there was already a plan for my life. Because that leads to way more questions than answers.
So, I tasked myself with thinking about what is the purpose of my life as I see it. Wow again. At first, it seemed like a manageable question. But now, I'm not so sure. And I wonder how many people ask themselves this question and continue to ask the question as they evolve?
Have you?
2 comments:
Interesting one Yvette, I, like you thought the second one would be easy to answer but as I attempted I realized that its not clear in my head either. There is the part that would be a good one for most to hear but there is another one that I am not sure I am comfortable sharing. Right now I would say I really don't know or I cannot sift through the plethora of messages coming through my head...
Wow. Thank-you for sharing. To something like this thoughtful comment, I typically would reply face to face, but you are anonymous, so I'm replying here.
I like the part about your purpose making you uncomfortable. I think that is somewhere I need to go but I'm afraid to. I think you're one step ahead of many in that arena - being truly honest with ourselves about how we feel about ourselves is hard to do. This give me more to think about.
I also like the plethora of messages. It means you're thinking about it. I'm still trying to comprehend the question in a meaningful way.
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