One Apple A Day #98
Inspiration, passion, true self, meaning. These are just some of the things we are supposed to find in life. We think of them as if they are hiding somewhere. Whispering in the air, planted deep within us, written in our destiny or on the stars. Some travel far from home to find them while others dig deep inside hoping to uncover them under their fears. Some just wait. They wait for the inspiration to hit them, for their passion for revealing itself, for being struck by their true self in front of the mirror, for someone to come and gift them with their meaning.
I am more and more convinced that this idea of “finding” is a deceit. It keeps up hanging in our quest distracting us from doing the real thing; to create.
You don’t wait for, and you don’t seek inspiration. You build it exercising it every day, immersing yourself in your craft until you grow your inspiration.
You don’t find your passion. You create it raising your awareness while you do different things until you feel that the passion grows inside you.
You don’t find your true self; you build it day by day. You are constantly changing, want it or not. Your “true self” is not something static that you can find, but it is something evolving that you keep creating anew every day.
And what about meaning? Let me answer with this quote from Viktor Frankl:
“We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life, and instead to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life—daily and hourly. Our answer must consist, not in talk and meditation, but in right action and in right conduct.”
Don’t search the meaning of life, create your own.