Life sneaks up on you. One day you are seventeen and invincible, the next…your thirty something and nursing sore knees. An aging body can be problematic, but, a more present evil is an aging soul.
When we are young and the world is open for us to explore, life looks pretty spectacular. At some point between then and now, we come to realize that life carries a lot of responsibility. We need to work. We need to pay bills. We need to have the car serviced. We need to go food shopping. All of these responsibilities begin to pile up and seem to choke the “life” out of life. Until one day we wake up and find that we never did the one thing we knew was ours alone to do in this world. Maybe you were supposed to be mayor, or a lawyer, I was going to be in a band.
Why is it, that we forsake the one thing we know we should do, in order to heap unnecessary burdens of responsability onto our backs? I believe that the problem lies in our programing. From a very young age, we see images of the ideal lifestyle. Big house, good job, beautiful spouse, etc., etc., etc.. While in and of themselves these things are fine, the unexamined pursuit of them is toxic to our souls. There is nothing about a big house that makes one a better person. There is nothing about a beautiful spouse that completes a person’s soul. We have traded an image for the truth. Yikes!
So, I had a birthday last week. As usual that fact led me to consider my life and purpose. I was shocked to find the emptiness creeping up my throat. Wait a minute…I know I am supposed to do something, to be someone, but, what? I’m not exactly sure. I’m looking a bit more intently than I have been.
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