During the quiet times, when there is no distraction, I started asking myself the bigger questions - what is my purpose in life, why am I here? What is my why? What gets me going and keeps me going?
I know that our career takes up a huge part of our day and lives. That starts to consume us sometimes, our weekdays are consumed with work, our weekends revolve around forgetting work, an extra bank holiday feels like a getaway from ‘jail’ card, we long for our annual leave not to end and increase as our years of service increase. So what are we actually doing during work that keeps us tangled up? Do I want to live like that forever…
Personally, I think our purpose in life can be fulfilled through various aspects in life. Usually for my goals, I split areas of life by: career, religion, health, personal development, social/family/recreational. And when I feel fulfilled in these different aspects, it feels better but there always seems to be an imbalance.
I feel at my happiest when I am helping others i.e. serving someone else and I can do this through my role as a solicitor but want to feel that on a deeper level. On a developmental level, I mentor, volunteer and help students through my blog. As a whole, God is the centre of all that I do and I am at peace when I can turn to Him and speak to Him freely.
So going back to my initial question - why am I here? I’m still figuring out how I can connect to this everyday. Or be wrapped by the overall power of purpose. It crops up everyday and is always on my mind. I try not to treat phases in life as ‘transitional’ (difficult but working on it) but rather as serving a bigger purpose of getting me to where I want to/need to be.
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