Now there are many paths that a person can freely choose in life.
Go to school.
Get a job.
Start a business.
Join the Military.
Be homeless.
Be a rock star.
etc, etc, etc.
The conclusion I have come to as far as any of these paths go is that they are all valuable in their own respects.
Each path has benefits that you could not get from another, yet there is some very interesting similarities between all of them.
As far as my thinking goes they all have one very important similarity: DEEP INNER QUESTIONING AS TO WHAT YOUR LIFE’S PURPOSE IS.
Now I personally no longer attend a formal school of any kind. I choose to read books, listen to tapes, and attend seminars with subjects that deeply interest me and excite me instead.
I feel on this path I get much more benefit than if I were sitting in a classroom listening to a lecture on a topic that makes me want to saw my feet off.
“But you know, that class is required to GET YOUR DEGREE”
Okay seriously, first off this nations collective consciousness can stop trying to use scare tactics on me with this whole degree thing. I do not care about getting a degree, nor do I plan on getting one. Secondly, who decides what should be required to get a degree anyway? What person or group of people decides this type of thing?
Anyway, I mentally stumbled upon this idea the other day: If What ever you are doing at this present moment does not fully and totally excite you, you are in detention.
That’s right, DETENTION.
What’s the point of detention, time out, restriction, or any of the other various forms of punishment that our elders imposed upon us at a young age?
It was for us to ‘SIT THERE IN SOLITARY CONFINEMENT FOR A SET AMOUNT OF TIME TO THINK ABOUT WHAT YOU’VE DONE!’ (or what you haven’t done in some situations)
And that’s pretty much the case for most people who are stuck in a state of drudgery. The choices that they’ve made up to this point have placed them in detention for a set amount of time so they can THINK about what’s going on in their life and re-assess what they should be doing and where they should be going to make their life from this point forward better than what it was before.
And yes, I am still in detention.
I am not satisfied with where I am in life. I am still learning. I am still growing. I am still removing the anchors from the past that are mentally holding me where I have been. I will continue to educate myself ( which comes from the latin root educo, which means to draw out and develop from within) in the areas that make me so excited that I can’t sleep at night.
Yet, I am happy. I am happier than I have ever been before. New doors are being opened to me all the time. God has blessed me with more gifts than I know what to do with, and I have every opportunity in the world to succeed.
I am grateful for what God has blessed me with, yet I will still keep striving to improve my life so that I can bless the lives of others.
So if you haven’t achieved everything in life that you want to, which path of detention are you currently choosing?
Feel free to comment.
- J
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