The purpose of life is a life of purpose.
We search for the meaning of life, and through that we try to understand our existence. The Why, how and when does not make a difference in our life, if we do not learn to follow our passion and find our joy of doing things.
Once a wise man was asked, What is meaning of life? He replied... Life itself has no meaning... Life is an opportunity to create a meaning.
We often ask this question and we get a mind fog as to Where we come from? Who am I? What is my destiny? For centuries we have asked these questions, handed down through our peers and we spend our entire life trying to find the meaning of life and our role in it.
Imagine... Life as not hard .... but Life as beautiful. When we feel life as a gift, given to us without us asking to be born .. we manage to live it as we wish it to be. Maybe life as such is not complicated but we tend to make it so.
We talk about simplicity what comes to mind?
To me, Being simple means accepting ourselves as we are, and then being grateful for being given an opportunity to create what ever we would like to, by being non-judgemental about everything around us.
Our passion drives us to better ourselves, from what we were yesterday, and live in this moment... Now. Every today will become yesterday and every tomorrow will become Now. Sometimes it's all about looking within and understanding what makes us happy and what we would like to create from our life.
For few years i have been debating about my purpose of life and i kept going back in past. My work and what i could do with it. It's been challenging , my very own existence and what i want from my life. But deep down within me, i realised i loved my work because i travelled and created amazing events. It was all about meeting new people, travelling and creating something interesting. Beyond that it did not define me.
We do get stuck in our past or in our work without understanding what next we would like to do. Human mind always needs a challenge for it to grow and create new connections. It appears that Challenging our brains... for example , like learning a new skill - leads to actual changes in the adult brain. Diversity in learning and work increases our chances of living life with passion.
For me i worked in events for more than 2 decades with all my passion. The day i woke up in morning, and felt compelled to go to work, i was no more interested in pursuing the same work. For more than 2 decades i felt every morning i was going to have fun. And work was fun that time. New learnings.. new ideas and concepts. Once i realised there was nothing more to learn other than introduce new technology over and over again in the events it became from fun.....work. And that's when i decided time to do something different.
But then mind fog hit me and i struggled for couple of years to understand what next will excite me. I was going in circles... tried to keep myself busy with travel, exercise , watching lots of TV and just mundane stuff. Maybe i didn't want to address the issue as it made me uncomfortable and best way to avoid emotions is to do mundane stuff and keep oneself busy.
Then 2020 happened and thanks to lockdown, i has no choice but to address this mind fog which had completely engulfed me. Personally i don't have a depressive bone in my body and if some incident happens which is not to my liking... i feel upset for sometime and then let it go. Time is the most valuable asset we have, more valuable than the riches in this world and frankly i don't like the idea of wasting my time on external factors which try to effect my joy.
It was during this period, i realised the new skills i would like to learn, and how i can use these skills for benefit of myself and others. It felt strange initially that at age 50 i was learning new skills and changing my work field. But then i realised when Mr. Munjal at age of 60 years had started Hero Motors and this gave me reason enough to believe in myself and what i am planning on doing.
I will not say that my experience of 28 years is wasted, in fact thanks to my previous work profile it's easier for me to understand my new skills i am learning. It's the foundation which i already have, is helping me build my new purpose.
The meaning of life is to find your gift. the purpose of life is to give it away.... to share your gift with others.
What's your Life Purpose?
