Last month, I
watched an online interview and one of the comments made was that it is very
easy to figure out what your life purpose is.
The presenter
continued by saying, just take a look at all your daily activities, your work/job,
your volunteer tasks and community involvement, your hobbies and pretty much
every area of your life. Then imagine
that you were told you could only do 1 of those activities for the rest of your
life, and you had to quit everything else.
What would you choose?
The presenter said
she would choose writing, and that’s how she knows it’s her life purpose. Note, she didn’t choose a specific type of
writing or even a genre. Our life
purpose isn’t something that is very specific, nor is there only one “right” way
to express it.
I found that little
exercise interesting because I have personally lived it, in a manner of
speaking. Ten and a half years ago when
I had my total physical collapse, I was faced with having to literally give up
everything I was doing in my life.
I had to leave my
job at the library, I had to resign from every board I was a member of, I had
to quit teaching yoga, I ended up having to put a long pause on many of my
hobbies, and virtually every area of my life was affected as I spent many hours
in bed unable to do anything.
The one thing I
didn’t give up, and refused to give up under any circumstances, was publishing
this newspaper.
It wasn’t easy to
keep going as there were many challenges across the board, and I needed help
with the deliveries, but I knew that publishing the paper was vital to my
health and wellbeing (even if I was on death’s doorstep at the time).
Another way of looking at this question, is to ask what gets you out of bed each morning. We all have something that keeps us going even when life falls apart. What is yours?
Beth
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