The question comes up at one time or another .. what is the goal of life? Why am I here? What am I doing? Why am I doing it? I have thought about these questions several times but never did it stand out to me the way it did on a wintery afternoon last week. I was writing in my diary. I saw the words ".. really, life is about being yourself" being typed. I didnt really think about it; which is what made it beautiful. It just came from within me; just like that.
Then I paused and pondered. What did I really mean? It's really quite simple. We spend our lives going from one thing to the next - job, career, marriage, children, family, finances, homes, travel, vacations, hobbies all in a pursuit to occupy ourselves and be happy; happy with ourselves. We may say that we are doing it all to make other people happy but really if we ourselves are not happy, the quest does not end. And what does it really mean to be happy with ourselves. If we are just comfortable BEING ourselves; isnt that all we are really seeking. I asked myself -- if I can pause and look at myself and have the strength just to be myself; isnt that all there is to it. Everything else will follow from the strength and peace that comes from just being myself. Accepting and loving myself for what I am. Its seems so simple but it feels like I have spent my entire life so far not doing very much of it.
So, as I close on 2003 and stand at the rise of 2004, I am asking myself, if and how I can just be myself.
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