Recognizing The Meaning Of Your Life
by Emmanuel Van Der Meulen
What we can do, and usually do, is look for meaning outside ourselves. But we can uncover our meaning inside ourselves. Then, instead of doing things to find meaning, we can do things that include our meaning. When we do the things we like doing, we manifest our meaning through those things.
If you recognize yourself first, it isn't impossible to uncover your meaning.
When you do uncover your meaning, what are you likely to find? You'll find the things you usually look for externally: security, inner peace, wisdom, clarity, maturity, contentment, meaning, fun, and many other human ingredients. This list isn't complete, but is indicative of inner values you'll uncover.
And if you uncover your meaning, you won't then do something for the clarity it will give you, but because of the clarity you possess that you can bring to whatever you do. As you uncover more of these values inside yourself, using the necessary courage, you'll uncover further values. As you uncover your own values, you'll also notice how those values grow and lead you to uncover further values. This will provide you with strength and confidence to uncover yourself even further; like a perpetual cycle. Oh, but only if you have the courage to be brutally honest.
From time to time, you'll doubt yourself, because in uncovering yourself more and more, you'll fit less and less into what society has created and what society you're a part of. Over time, you'll see things very differently from how you used to see them and how other people see them. You'll see things for what they are, because you aren't looking for value in things outside yourself anymore. Your value system will be very different from what you encounter around you on a daily basis, even moment by moment.
Your preferences will change. Things you used to do will lose their appeal, and you'll have courage for things you didn't have courage for previously.
Taking this route won't automatically make your life easier, because it will be so diametrically different from your previous supposed preferences and what society expects and dictates. One change, though, is that your life will have meaning. At the same time, you'll see more and more how society searches for meaning. Your behaviour will change. You'll notice that in situations where you would have reacted in a certain way, now you'll respond in some other way: not just to be different, but because the situation and your actions will have different meaning for you.
You might even lose interest in your job, likely because whatever goals or influences drove you before are likely to wane away.
You'll likely uncover new interests, and might recognize things from your daydreams that now come to fruition.
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