My 60th birthday is less than two months away. And, to be honest, I have been having some existential angst about entering this new decade (which means I’ll actually be in my sixty-FIRST year!). You might call it a “a-bit-beyond-midlife” crisis. Trying to add up all the sharp turns in a less-than-normal life trajectory and feeling a bit purposeless at the moment.
One of the reasons I have been feeling so anxious is that 10 years ago, as a result of one of those aforementioned “sharp turns” in my life, I had arrived, quite synchronously, at a career experience that was the “life purpose” I had been praying for. I was in a zone of personal and professional bliss, where I was successfully accessing and using talents and skills that hadn’t even dreamed of having just a short time before. I was rockin’ my life and life’s purpose!
Then, two years ago, thanks to another sharp turn, that situation abruptly ended. And though I have absolutely no regrets about how it ended, I have been grieving the loss of that oh-so-clear purpose that came with with it. As I have come out of that grief, I have realized I am careening toward a new decade, feeling like I got shot out of a cannon right back to where I was 10 years ago at that first sharp turn that led me to what I thought would be my later-life-purpose. I am once again wondering “what the bleep am I supposed to be doing with my life?
Over the last couple of weeks, I have had some really enjoyable times with people I love very much. I also heard a quote from an Abraham-Hicks channeling session that gave me a nice wake-up head -tap. During the lecture/channeling session, Esther Hicks, channeling the spiritual entity Abraham, addresses our true purpose, and gives us some tools to explain this true purpose to a world around us that has not yet grown to understand what we are here for:
So when they say, “what are you doing?”
You say, “things that please me”
And they say “toward what end?”
And you say, “pleasure,”
And they say “But really what are you working on?”
And you say “Having a good time.”
And they say “what do you hope to accomplish?”
And you say “living happily ever after”
And they say “but what do you want to leave as your legacy?“
And you say “That I was a Happy One…”
And they say “but what is the mark you want to leave?”
“Life is joyous.”
“But what is the value you see in contributing to the time space reality?”
“I’m joyful.”
“But what do you hope to accomplish?”
“Being happy.”
It’s that simple! My purpose in each moment is to realize joy in each moment!
All I have to do is to HAVE FUN. Because each moment that I spend in angst over what my mission is, I am missing the opportunity to fulfill my mission to ENJOY LIFE. To HAVE A GOOD TIME. To BE JOYFUL. To be A HAPPY ONE! To HAVE FUN.
No planning required.
Check out my Metaphysical Moment for this week on this subject!
Have fun!