What Makes You Come Alive?
#2060
Don’t ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive, and go do that, because what the world needs is people who have come alive. — Howard Thurman
They say that every journey is lived three times: when you dream of it, when you go, and when you remember it. Looking back on my adventure in Patagonia, it is definitely true. These days, 9 years ago, we were driving on a white road in the middle of nowhere. If I close my eyes, I can still taste the excitement, the joy, the freedom as if I were there.
Isn’t it the same for all those experiences in life that make us come alive?
They are the ones that energize us when we dream about them. The ones that make us forget everything else while we live them. And the ones we relive every time we tell those stories.
“In the end, we’ll all become stories,” wrote Margaret Atwood.
The stories we like to tell are the exciting ones, the transformative ones, the ones that make us feel alive just by telling them.
Those are the stories I want to tell. And to do so, I need to first dream them and then live them.
So, what makes you come alive?