Self vs. World - Part 1 - Finding Yourself

I've always believed that everyone needs to live life to their fullest. What is living life to its fullest or how do you go about it? That's the tough part because our definition of a full life is sure to vary. To some a full life might be becoming the CEO of a company to another it may be to help underprivileged children. While some might say that the first is a selfish motive while the latter is selfless, perhaps it is time that we respect each individuals choice. If you want to be rich and famous then that's what you should do. If you choose to do social work because others approve of it and not because you want to do it, you will be neither be happy nor successful. Achieving wealth isn't shameful, if it is then why do people expect you to have a job or pay bills. Our world is full of contradictions, we think one thing, say another and do something entirely different. I've often disagreed with supposed societal norms which more often than not contradict each other.

 

The world around us knows itself no better than we know ourselves. We want constants in world where everything is changing. Things can change for better or worse, the direction depends on you and your perspective of what is better or worse. The world shapes us and we shape the world. You have to judge for yourself who you want to be every day, because the person who you're certainly accountable to for your life is 'yourself'. More often than not our mental, physical and emotional selves are at completely different stages of maturity. It makes us who we are and for that we should be glad, yet it makes our journey of self-realization a tough one.

If you feel dissatisfied with life, relationships or work...ask yourself what would you change and change it. Take time to know yourself and where you stand in your world, maybe take a holiday. Each of us have to find our place in our time, if you haven't found yours and the world around you is clamoring for answers, take a deep breath, look inward and dive to the core of your being. Sometimes the answers you find won't please the world but maybe you weren't put in the world to please people. You have to find your purpose and live it.

Don't be so busy surviving life that you forget to live it.