It's really too easy to double guess the path that you have so chosen as your life.
I look at my resume, and it amazes me. But my resume isn't my life. My life isn't always full of totally amazing adventures, okay maybe it is. But it's too easy to begin to see those adventures, as normal. We often allocate adventure with exotic lands and new people and totally new things happening all of the time. Maybe it's what media feeds us, maybe it's our own ideologies about life. But maybe the biggest adventure is actually what we may perceive as the most dull or even normal, maybe even just stressful. Who says a 9-5 job cannot be an adventure? No day is exactly alike the previous.
I have been seeking that inner spark which for some reason I completely had lost site of.
Where your current life is, has less to do with your current idea of what you ought to be doing, it has everything to do with where you want to end up in the future.
What is your biggest dream? Could your biggest dream be accomplished if you continue to live life as you are in this moment for the next 10 years? Are you doing something today that is difficult and challenging and you aren't quite sure if you can make it through, but do you see it as defining you for your future intentions for your life? It seems to me, that in this generation we have grown so accustomed to instant gratification. Which unfortunately doesn't quite create lasting happiness. Real joy and real beauty comes from sweat and perseverance. Sure maybe one day these things after much much practice will be easier to attain, but in the beginning it may not always be easy. And that's okay! In fact, it's the way it ought to be.
I watched this video, and somehow everything clicked. I suddenly realized, I am exactly where I need to be. It currently may not seem easy, but I will push through. I will work hard. I will figure this all out. And I will be better because of it. I am in completely unchartered territory, but I won't let the unknown define who I am. And I won't turn back. I always imagined adventures as being jungles and mountains. But in the age of enlightenment, adventures can really only be inner journeys (even if sometimes they ARE disguised as outer journeys of jungles and tigers). They are journeys of mind and spirit and that may have nothing to do with the outdoors. The outdoors have defined who I am my entire life. And it continues to do so today. However, now is the time that I learn to explore what is in my heart and how whatever I find I can bravely share with the world. We have a lot of work to do on planet earth, we have a thousand broken things that need fixing. I think we have what it takes though. I think we can do it.
In this video, she talks about the '20's, granted the 20s are important and they should be seized, but in no way should this deter those in their 30s, 40s, 50s, 60s, 70s++ in not going in the direction of their dreams. I say wherever you are in life, start now. Start going down the path that you want to see yourself on in the coming years. Age is an illusion. Don't worry about magically 'being' who you want to be now, take tiny steps everyday that take you closer to the goal. Start small.
Check out this talk, for tiny habits.
And for just an incredible talk on living your dreams.
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