When you feel like you have no purpose in life…
After posting some articles about my objectives, I came across a text I wrote in 2016. This had the title “When you feel like you have no purpose in life…”
It’s about the time you are trying to figure out what you should do with your life.
Here it is…
“Have you ever felt like you had no objective in life? Like you couldn’t do just one thing and feel you were lost, mostly on you professional career? Thinking too much of “What am I going to do?”, and feel always stressed about this?
Let me try to help you.
I felt the same way, for years. (Like if I’m too old!Eheh).
But let me tell you this, and if your not meant to be a one thing only? Or to have one purpose in life? In my case, I like too read about science, and bought a lot of books, I like to learn about psychology (I’m not interested in having a degree) and I bought a lot of books, I coach football (but I don’t want to be a coach) and I spend at least 12 hours a week giving trainings to my team, while I work a full-time job and study at night to follow Law school, and still find time to have side projects with my friends.
In today’s world people will say, “why do you do that? Shouldn’t you be focused on one thing?” or “Isn’t that too many things too waste time?”. Probably yes, in their point of view. The thing is that I can’t, I can’t decide whether I want to dedicate myself to my current full time job, or to dedicate to the side projects or whether follow another thing I may find interesting tomorrow.
That’s the main problem. I have too many interests. That’s why I have too many activities in my life.
I love to learn about a lot of things and that is what keeps me engaging in too many different subjects.
And then I watched Emilie Wapnick Ted Talk, and felt like “What? It isn’t just me there are others, well at least one”.
Like she explained, we have too many interests too decide which one we want to follow for our lifetime, and that can be a “problem”. You fell anxiety all the time. “What am I going to do?”, “What’s my purpose in life?”. This thoughts will invade your mind for a while, and it can be really hard and can even get you depressed.
After I watched her talk, I thought “She is right!”, I can choose to be good in many subjects. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not saying you can be as good as one person who dedicated his whole life to one subject, but you can learn and be decent and still have a good amount of knowledge.
I know it’s scary, when you live in a world where life requires you to do the opposite, but like we say “Knowledge is never too much. And someday, somehow you will use that knowledge.”
This is a little contradictory of what I wrote in my last posts, but it is an honest text of what I felt and thought was right at that moment (October/November of 2016).
This doesn’t mean that the other posts or this post is right. This is just to show how much you change.
P.S - And it funny to find this old texts! Ahahah.
Hope you liked it.
