For as long as I can remember, I have known that traditional ‘life’ didn’t make much sense and in my heart I knew that the way we had been taught to live…was just one big misunderstanding about how life is supposed to be.
You see, it didn’t make sense to me that I had to just pick a course of study and commit my life to it so I could be an adult and be responsible. Despite it not making any sense, I picked something I thought I’d like to do (exercise science) and went on my merry way.
When I graduated, I did what many people did when they graduated. I got a job that had nothing to do with my degree. In fact it was likely the furthest thing away from what I was ‘trained’ to do that it didn’t make any sense. I was an office assistant.
It was in that job that I learned a lot about myself, my path, and how so many other people live in what they thought was the ‘normal’ way.
Does this sound familiar?
You study, get a degree, and then hop on the first job out of college. You commit yourself to working your way up, provided the gig is something worthwhile and it’s not too terrible. You may not be happy, but you find yourself on a path to abundance and better job titles if you can just hang in there. You build a life and a career based on the discomfort that everyone else feels right?
Work is supposed to be work and only a lucky few actually enjoy the jobs they do. If you don’t hate your job (even if you don’t love it) you consider yourself lucky. Yet…all the while something feels like it’s missing. Some cosmic piece of your personality, your psyche, your joy is fundamentally missing from the very foundation that you have built your life on. Who are you to complain though right? I mean SO many people don’t even have jobs and you do. So, you ignore the discomfort and vow to take fun vacations and save for the future when you can finally do the things that you love.
That is exactly what I was taught and for a brief moment in time, I believed that was going to be my life. Until, I decided that I wasn’t cut out for that kind of living or just merely surviving.
I knew I was a creative soul with big dreams, interests, and a desire to make a difference. I didn’t know how I would do it. I didn’t even know where to look, but one thing I knew for sure was that I was meant for more than what I was currently doing.
That was also the moment I vowed to follow my heart and find my passion and truly live my purpose. It is also the experience that taught me how to help other people in similar shoes do exactly the same thing.
What I now know is that we aren’t put here to just struggle through life doing things we hate. We are actually meant to be happy, to overcome struggles, and to do the things we love. It is what drives many of us everyday in the search.
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