What Are You To Do With Your Life?

It seems to me that it's a question on pretty much everyone's mind.

Everyone alive wants answers.

And it seems to me that we've largely failed to provide adequate answers.

Not the politicians.

Not our traditional religions.

Certainly not our friends.

Or the social media where so many look for answers to their day-to-day problems.

Definitely not the media or the daily news bulletins or the endless current affairs programs designed to be giving us a balanced view of life and the world we are living in.

What about the popular glossy magazines with, supposedly, all the answers to the dilemmas of our lives? I don't think so.

We've surely been let down somewhere along the line.

Look at the suicide rate, the depression, the mental illness and, indeed, the disillusionment with our modern world.

Am I being too harsh?

Well, maybe all is not doom and gloom, because in contrast to the picture I've painted here I've learned from life that we've been looking in all the wrong places, trusting all the wrong sources and listening to all the wrong people, for the answer to the ultimate question about life:

WHAT AM I DOING HERE AND WHAT AM I MEANT TO DO WITH MY LIFE?

We all are born with a purpose in life, something we love and enjoy, that we do well.

The trouble is, early in life we need to make decisions on our future before we are ready.

Then later in life, we may become dissatisfied with our lot, our career, yet we're stuck in the life we've created for ourselves.

There's a book that addresses this life-changing matter and sets out the theory of being born knowing what we are here for, and how we can know what that is.

It's titled 'The Soul's Code' by James Hillman (a Jungian psychologist, author and university lecturer).

There's a link to the book in the sidebar.

I recommend it to you, it will change your life.

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Neil Smith has written extensively on life (and how to deal with it) including 3 non-fiction books and numerous blogs. To read how he went from zero to hero while solving a ghostly mystery CLICK HERE and his blog 'How To Be Human' CLICK HERE.
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