James Hollis is an American psychoanalyst. He says that we usually live the first half of our lives based on the question "what do others want from me". And not in the people pleasing way, but rather in the sense that we look at other people to learn the "rules" of the game of life. Growing up we unconsciously get a cultural sense of concepts like success, peace, happiness, distraction.
If we are lucky, the question that we base our lives on changes in the second half of our lives. When we answer and act on the question "what does my soul want?" - or even more: "what does the world need to be expressed through me" - then we can start to construct a life of meaning. The task is then not to reach a specific goal, but rather to embrace the journey that will inevitably be filled with risk, and commitment, and danger - but also with passion.
So: what is your soul yearning for?
Have a good week,
Marietjie
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