We often base fulfillment on attaining things that we have
done to impress others. In the busy life
of Internet based meetings, constant social contact, 24 hour TV, 3 shifts of
work; individuals often forget they are…..individual. It is very tempting to bury your head and
just “work your hours” and go home.
There is so much going on, slowing down the bill paying machine to find
your “old heart song” is too overwhelming.
It gets buried under our multi-task “to do lists” and family raising duties
that living for “what I want from life” isn’t worth the effort of extracting it
from deep within. Then before you know it, your health has taken
a hit, mid-life strikes and you are in too deep with the aftermath of attaining
all those material things that gave temporary satisfaction.
End game is no progress to goal/no happiness. But now we have physical ailments and
suffering, minimal at first but always ramping up quickly as the medical
problems accumulate…..there goes all the savings! A doctor I just shared my journey with told
me he gave up his practice after his divorce; suffered a heart attack after
selling his practice; is now alone and drives to another state to be with his
kids 2 weekends a month. Told me he has tried to meditate to find his
path in life but it seems too big of a task to begin. I told him, yes it is but the beauty is you
are in control of the choice to change and a small beginning ……..is still
growth and progress to your forgotten goal.
From the Dalai Lama XIV
“Man surprised me most
about humanity. Because he sacrifices his health in order to make money. Then
he sacrifices money to recuperate his health. And then he is so anxious about
the future that he does not enjoy the present; the result being that he does
not live in the present or the future; he lives as if he is never going to die,
and then dies having never really lived.”
