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I Am Always Thinking and Thinking

My whole life I have always had some greater goal. I always wanted to give something great to the world. What exactly I was going to give changed over the years but I always had that passion and strong knowledge that I wanted to DO something I wanted to make an impact and a change.

It is only just recently that I have realized that not only does not everyone have that same drive, but it's actually pretty rare. Most people just want to.....live? I don't know how to explain it.

I think maybe one reason why so many people are depressed and feel caught in the rat race is because they haven't given themselves purpose. I have always had a purpose to work towards. Something that I fought for even in my darkest times, that kept me alive when I experienced only suffering from life and no joy at all. I knew I hadn't given what I was here to give yet.

I don't know this is me just rambling. It was just a sort of revelation to me. Most people are content to just live.

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SoFine · 46-50, F

Small kind gestures go a long way.
1. Smile at stranger when your out about.
2. Pay for an old person meal or shopping.
3. Help an old lady with her cleaning or gardening.

To be of service, does not need you to save the world. You can with those small helpings of kindness. Then to love who you are, is also a gift that when others oberve you been authentic, it gives them the space to be themselves.

Also true success in life is been with all the mundane aspects, mundane takes up 98%. We balance our budget, work, shop, rest, exercise, travel. .

To much thinking can ware down your MOJO, that's why we use daily meditation, to have gaps from the mind compulsion, trying to figure out how to solve the world's issues. (Remember when one issue is solved another takes it's place)

novembermoon · 51-55

Understand what you say here. Probably we'd like to think our lives have meaning when we're part of something bigger than ourselves, something noble. Probably we're not here to just pay bills and die.
Yes, true. I see that you're very young. Good to have goals and ideals. But also good to understand that those who work very hard to pay bills may not have had many choices open to them in the first place. The older generation live and work in quite a different era where jobs were scarce( at least here in Asia it was so) plus war and poverty. So we take heart and learn from what we see. I'm glad you have made some observations as well.

Hush92 · 26-30, F

@novembermoon There is always a choice, sometimes the choice is just not one a person is willing to make.

I do not believe that when you are older passion just withers and dies. I do not believe passion is a characteristic of youth alone. If so older people would have never contributed anything to the world. I see older people with passion every day, and countless older people followed through with their passion and made differences.

BiasForAction · M

I think people tend to be more idealistic when they are young and life beats it out of them over time

Hush92 · 26-30, F

@BiasForAction Most people my age I have found do not share the same drive as me. They are still young.

And there are many people who accomplished great things while older. I do not think such a thing diminishes with age. I do think depending on the life you have you can become disheartened, but you can also become inspired and gain that passion where it wasn't there before and age has nothing to do with it. To become old is inevitable. To become old and cynical is a choice.

BiasForAction · M

@Hush92 yes that’s what the young and idealistic say
And that’s awesome

Zaxel · 26-30, M

What's the point of living average, there's only one life anyway, might as well make smart risk-adjusted choices

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