Life with Purpose

Widgets, zing zangs, wizamaroos, rickety rackets.  Stuff.  Consuming, wasting, ignoring.  I pull into the parking lot of a grocery box store and wade through the stifling, suffocating crowds pressed in by behemoth stacks of products clean to the ceiling.  I wonder how on earth I can teach my kids about entitlement when I myself have gone so wrong.  How do I convey to them the difference between wants and needs, to give rather than consume, to be aware rather than to ignore.

True value.  Somewhere from my childhood to now I have lost my way.  Five hundred years ago acquiring a food store was the requirement for survival.  Where did that instinct get so manipulated to an endless need for luxury.  What is so desperately missing that we feel a need to fill it with endless trinkets. 

We have lost what constitutes true purpose. Without purpose, we lose our sense of value.  We get bored, ignorant, complacent.  We fill that void the easiest way we can.

For myself, it is not a matter of not having purpose, it is losing sight of it.  Like progress in Kung Fu, often a reflection on our life purpose is also required. Where am I, what am I doing, and most importantly….why?

I challenge you to answer that, then seek to fulfill it.