I had a conversation with someone earlier today about living our lives and some of the things that we have experienced in our past. One of the things that she was stating was that the reason why she was struggling for the past 5 years was because she wasn’t living her life. It was a struggle for her because she had to spend so much time in her head trying to figure out the things she needed to do to live a life that wasn’t hers. That got me to thinking…. Am I living my life? I then asked myself, if there was no societal or parental pressure, what would I be doing with my life? I had to answer truthfully, that it wouldn’t be what I am doing now. I realized that is why I am struggling in my life is because I am also spending a lot of time in my head trying to “figure it out”. The things that come easily, naturally and joyfully to me aren’t the things I am doing to make a living, or expressing myself. Because I can pick up things quickly, and my IQ is on the high side of average, I am able to make it work. And for me, I think that was the thing that took it so long for me to realize that I wasn’t living my life, because I was making what I had “work”.
That is the crux of things. Is what you are doing now making the life you are living “work”? You are able to be somewhat successful, but you have to put a lot of effort into it. You have fallen […]
