There are some questions we need to ask ourselves if we want to go far in life and achieve as much as we want to. It's okay if you don't want to feel challenged and you just want to lay back and take whatever comes to you but some can't settle for less and they constantly want to keep themselves on their toes, so if you are like that, there are some questions you need to ask yourself to understand your purpose and what needs to be done.
It's okay if you are confused about life, God knows I have been confused many times too. Sometimes I feel I understand some things and other times what I thought I knew would be distorted that I question how I felt confident I knew what I thought I knew.
Life is for the strong and everyone can be strong but it depends on how we respond rather than react to the challenges that life throws our way. The funny thing is, we cannot escape challenges and it comes in varying degrees whether we want it or not. There are some things beyond our control and that's why I want to discuss the things we have under our control. This is for us all and a reminder for those who are already challenging themselves to be better as well. We must not go through life without making our impact. Why would you want to become a secondary character in your life's story???
WHAT?
In life, you need to know what you are supposed to do or let me say what you are expected to do. You are not in life to add to the numbers or to simply exist. You are here to make a difference and contribute your little bit for the good of the whole. Never belittle what you have thinking it is inconsequential, no, because every little bit helps.
What do you have that others don't? What are you good at that others struggle with? What comes naturally to you that you think you can do? What's your area of strength? What encourages you or what gives you the courage to wake up every morning? What would you do even with little payout? What problem are you seeing that you think you can help in solving? You are not born without a purpose because you are not a mistake even if at some point your parent told you that you are. Imagine millions of sperm cells and yet you were the only one that stuck?
This is the time for us to know what we have been blessed with to solve the problems we have in the world. Most of the issues we are having in the world are because most people leave their part undone while expecting others to do theirs. Imagine if we all chip in our bits without anyone leaving only others to it, I believe we would achieve so much and faster too.
Imagine if the eyes told the legs today that it doesn't feel like 'operating' today... Everything becomes useless. Each part has a part to play in the grand scheme of things. It would be a great travesty to die with our dreams still buried in us unactualized.
Knowing what you are good at or your area of strength is the first step towards actualization. This is what we need to leverage as humans but most of the time we go in search of something else when we could easily have looked within. I have been guilty of this many times too. We all have what the world needs and we need to stop making the mistake of allowing what we have become what we had because even the best of gifts if left unattended to it becomes uncultured. Imagine having the best of fields that could feed the whole nation and you left it unattended to... It won't plant things on it by itself... We are the ones to work it out and drive it to its full potentials.
What are you doing with your life? This is not an attack because I ask myself daily. Sometimes I feel I am falling short and I am not doing enough. There are things I ought to have done and I know I am lagging too so I always ask myself this question so it can sink into my subconscious that I haven't attained yet... There are many more lands to conquer and many miles to go. The world would only step aside for us if we truly show that we know where we are going. What direction is your life tilting towards? Until you know this, you would always abuse the gifts that you have inside of you.
We are the ones to seek answers for ourselves because life is funny sometimes. Some people can go through life seeking answers that might never come and halfway through it too they cave in and give up.
I remembered the story of two men digging the ground in search of diamonds. The first man dug his own and was able to find whereas the second man was so close to his own too but because he saw the other man with his diamond, after the man with the diamond left, he abandoned his own and went digging the other man's portion and still found nothing despite wasting his energy. If only he exerted that same energy on his, he would have gotten his own with just half of the energy he wasted. That's how most people live their lives... They leave what they are supposed to do just to covet what others have. This is why we need to constantly ask ourselves what we want to do with our lives as it would help us not to waste time being jealous of what others are doing with their lives.
We need to focus on our assignment in life and we must never waste any experience that life pass to us. There is always a reason for everything. There would be things you would go through that would make you wonder if that experience was necessary but only when you keep going through life would you understand why you went through what you went through. Never stop asking yourself what you can do with your life because your success shouldn't be just for you but for others as well. Everyone wants to become like Marc De Mesel if only you knew all the things he had done before now. He knew what he wanted to do with his life and he stuck to it and now, we see him as an inspiration.
Why are you still living? What do you want to do with your life that would inspire others and solve a major problem the world is facing?
Let me stop right here and would continue with this tomorrow. I don't want to make it longer than it is.
Thank you for your time.
I would want to say lack of patience and greediness make people walk away from their focus and go what doesn't correlate with their own purpose in life. Just like the story of the man; many people do not want to exert energy to what they are doing and seeing others doing theirs perfectly, they assume it would work easy for them. Have they asked themselves this question, "What am I not doing right?" We need to focus on our own energy and work hard to achieve good result.