WHAT IS THE MEANING OF MY LIFE?

Why bother to even ask the question?  Albert Einstein thought it was a dumb thing.  He would rather go cycling that do a silly thing like that.  People continue to ask it though, especially if you are caught up in rough places.  Viktor Frankl writes about his experiences in the Nazi death camps.  Everything was reduced to stark nakedness, not even his prestigious qualifications as a psychiatrist were considered seriously.  He dug trenches until his fingers were oozing blood in one of the most biting European winters ever known.

If he never asked that question, now it stood before him as a matter between life and death.  "What is the meaning of my life?"  We ask it because we have definite beginning and end.  It is important to engage in something you love and feel passionate about.  But in a world that spins on Maslow's hierarchy of needs (especially the bottom rungs), we are likely to end up believing that the world is anchored on full bellies.

And yet people with full bellies ask that question too.  So we are anxious below, and anxious beyond.  One way to overcome this feeling of desperation is to have a dynamic personal vision.  Something that can be taken to the next level.  Supposing you stand at the end of your life, and someone asks, "What did you make of your life?"  How would you respond?

When I asked that question, it made me look deep into my life-bag.  I identified those things, or that one thing I'm passionate about.  And just started doing it.  No strategic plans, aims and objectives, wara wara...Just plain straight doing IT!  And everything just started falling into place.  You are here for something, what is it?
You don't have forever you know.  Just do it!

The courage to be what God created you to become.

I've been thinking a lot lately about the word "Courage."  Why would one need courage for anything?  Well, it turns out that we all need courage at one time or another.  And above all, we need the courage to be what God has created us to become.  Makes you think doesn't it?

Hamlet's soliloquy is a challenge of all times, "To be or not to be, that is the question."  So every morning when I jump out of bed, I ask myself a simple question, "How am I going to add value to my becoming today?"  None of us is a finished product, so everyday is an opportunity to be better at what you do.  If you do good today, you can do better tomorrow, and best the next day.  The excitement  and meaning of life is not in repeating the things you know how to do, but in exploring how it can be done differently.  If you don't do that, someone else is going to beat you at your own game.  And you may end up fishing by lake side...grey with boredom.  Literally!

Making the move forward demands courage, because nothing worth noticing comes cheap.  I suppose you've heard all of that before?  But how many times do we get stuck in the rut of despair ready to give up on an idea that could change the world?  How often do we listen to that strange "voice" that keeps harping on our weak points?  Sadly that is not going away, we just need the courage to push through.  Remember, great men and women were born the same way as you were.  They are not a different species!

You too can make it happen.  Whatever it is.  COURAGE!