Good afternoon, everybody! It's a beautiful day here in GA, after storms again last night. Please raise your hand if you are as tired of the storms as I am. Mother Nature has her own ideas about what the earth needs, but I do wish she would ease up just a little!
Today I am posting again about our life purpose. Did you all get a chance to think about what you really want to do in life? Have you decided you have a "calling" for motherhood, or teaching, or even to be a sailor? Not all life purposes have to be lofty goals. We can accomplish as much at home making cakes for a bake sale as we can inventing a new cure for disease. We may not get rich baking those cakes, or even well-known, but we can enrich someone else's life with our work. So please do not think your life's work has to be to climb every mountain. If we all had to become famous mountain climbers, there would not be enough mountains in the world for us to climb!
It is wonderful to have high flying goals for our lives, and always want to achieve more. It may be part of what you need to do in this lifetime, if this is how you feel. It is just as important that many of us have other types of goals and purposes. As an example, "Lorraine" is married to a type A individual, who is always driven to make achievements. He is a real go-getter and has a high position in the medical field. His work had helped many people. Lorraine, on the other hand, has never worked, and stays at home caring for their two children. As well as raising two happy, intelligent children, Lorraine devotes her spare time to helping the homeless in her city. This couple is very different, but each has achieved their life purpose as they see them.
Sometimes we are at a crossroad and can not see which path we should take in life. It may seem we have no real purpose, even though we may long to do something meaningful with our lives. This is the time you should turn inward and listen to your higher self. You might meditate, or just sit quietly and ask yourself what you are really meant to do in life. This does not mean you have to change your entire life, unless that is your desire.
If you find yourself in a job that is dull and gives you no satisfaction, it may be time to listen to your heart. We can not always simply quit our job though and go live in Paris as an artist. Instead, as a beginning, you might take an art class on the weekend. If you feel strongly enough about your art class, the next step might be to find a job working in a museum or art gallery. Sometimes we have to take baby steps to reach our goals, whether they are spiritual or mundane.
Another way to determine what your purpose is in life is to look at what you have already achieved. Now this is easier if you are a little older! At twenty, we may not have too much experience. Please don't just look at your career, but the things you have enjoyed most in life. What have you done that really spoke to you, and gave you peace and satisfaction? It may not have been important from a world view, but that does not matter. As an example, perhaps from time to time you have volunteered in an animal shelter, or worked in a nursing home. Even though this work may be depressing to some people, you found it enjoyable, and fulfilling. Look closely here, one of your purposes in life might be working with animals, or the elderly. Again, I am not saying quit your day job and go to work at the animal shelter. I am saying look at the possibilities and see where they can take you.
For anyone who truly can not see any purpose in their life and feel very dissatisfied as a result, I say it is time for you to take a second look. There are so many roads we can take in life, and I feel sure there is one for you. We are all meant to be on this earth at this place and time, and we all have a purpose. Take off your blinders and look around you. There is a whole beautiful world out there and the only dead end is when we step over to the other side.
Until next time, blessings from Psykiksister.
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