Am I doing the right thing?
This is a question most of us ask our selves daily if not all of us. Pls forgive my spelling and punctuations, this is one of my very few attempts at writing something genuine.
So why do we constantly find ourselves asking this question?
In answering such question I prefer the idea of looking inward ( sort of like using an inner search engine ) instead of the polar opposite of looking outward.
Fundamentally, I find that this question is absurd cos it really has no form as it is very subjective and open to all forms of interpretation. For example; “am I doing the right thing as in making the best use of my life?”, “ am I living my dreams “, “ am I letting ppl have their way with me (am I being too nice”, “am I helping fix the worlds problems”, “ am I satisfying my hearts desires” …and the list is endless.
After creating a mental spreadsheet of all these possibilities you end up realizing there is no right thing in the sense of having an ultimate direction in life as it turns out we all found ourselves here in this reality with this question at every synaptic junction and constantly questioning our every move, judging our every move using some future superficial goal that we’ve probably never experienced to judge our actions as of now. So when we get there how do we know we are there, how do we know we’ve done the right thing. Some of us will say “oh, bill gates did it, Shakespeare did it.” They might give you a lot of answers if you ask them but I’d like to hear one of them say he or she did the right thing.
So Rejoice! my friend for there is no such thing as the right thing just an endless fumbling and tumbling and ppl giving you appraisal for what they consider as you hitting the “right thing” mark.