Purpose

I’m working on some freelance jobs tonight and in the process have run across a note I wrote to myself at some point. It says, “What is the business of your life? What is your purpose?”

Unlike I usually do, I didn’t date this or note what prompted the question. But it’s still worthy of an answer. I don’t have one, but it’s worthy of one. Or more.

“What is the business of your life?” That’s a weighty question. I wonder how many of us are engaged in the business that is the business of our lives. Most of us have jobs, but they are not necessarily what we are meant to do.

The experts always tell us to do what we love and the money will follow. Perhaps they have husbands or wivess willing to pay their bills or independent wealth, but I’m certain my mortgage holder does not espouse this mindset – quite the opposite,in fact.

My dream is to spend my days and nights entertaining friends and family, engaging in conversation, writing, painting, speaking, reading, travelling, teaching and thinking – on my own timetable. If you know how to make that lucrative, please let me know. I’m ready.

Of course, the question I noted, “What is the business of your life? What is your purpose?” is much broader than that. But it seems a struggle to focus on the true purpose of one’s life when so much of it is devoted to maintaining an existence. Surely that can’t be the purpose of life, and yet that’s what most of us do.

Interesting questions to ponder. If only I had time for that….