How I Found Purpose: A Happiness Tale
I don’t know about you, but for the longest time, whenever I heard that I needed to have a Purpose in life, I felt awfully intimidated. It sounded like such a lofty, heroic thing, as if it should always be spelled with capital “P.” You know, like you were supposed to save the world, or at least the whales or something, maybe make sure everybody everywhere had lunch and shoes.
Even when I considered that having a Purpose might not be as big as all that, that it might be more along the lines of knowing what you wanted to be when you grew up, I was at a loss. I wanted to be everything, and picking just one thing meant leaving all the other things behind. I envied people who knew from the age of six that they were going to be dancers or engineers or archeologists or chefs. I had no direction at all.
As the years passed, I did get to do a lot of different things. Maybe my purpose, I thought, was to experience variety, to live a Whitman’s sampler kind of life. I thought about getting a business card made that gave my title as “adept generalist.” There’s something to be said for being a generalist, after all. It lets you see the world from a lot of angles. You don’t make great achievements or get to know a field in its depth. But you pick up a fair share of skills and get to see how a lot of different things work.
Still, it nagged at me whenever I heard a motivational speaker say your life had to have a Purpose if you were going to live with passion. Then one day I was driving along listening to the radio and some guy said, “The purpose of life is the celebration of it,” and skyrockets went off in my head. “Yes!” I shouted right out loud. “Of course!”
It doesn’t matter what role you play, how much power or status or acumen you have. You make your life whole and holy when you just appreciate it with all your being, when you celebrate the whole, grand, complex mystery of it. Then, whatever you are is beautiful and every passing day is a priceless gift.
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Yes! I just shouted aloud, Exactly!
Thanks Susan for another homerun.