I’ve used this Shakespeare quote in one of my earlier posts on the subject ‘Thinking’. I love it so much because it reminds of reality being completely neutral, neither good or bad. And that it is our own thinking that makes it good or bad, beautiful or ugly, full of potential or hopeless etc..
Many people try hard to spend their time effectively and constructively on doing ‘useful’ things. Because they’ve been taught that ‘time is precious’ and so it should be ‘well’ spent. In making that effort many people also experience some pressure. Because what exactly is ‘useful’ and what if they don’t spent their time ‘well’? The interesting thing is that it doesn’t matter what you do with your time, what matters is what you want to get out of it. And having accomplished that, makes it a time well spent. And so, because from monday to friday we are so focused on doing ‘sensible’ things, why not use the weekend for doing something completely pointless. Just because it will break the routine. It will be refreshing! It will lead to a crazy adventure! It will set you free from that constant pressure of having to do something ‘useful’. In fact, doing something pointless in this case, is very useful.
There are many ways to add color to your life, but what does it really mean? A quote by French novelist and playwright Honore de Balzac (1799–1850) inspired me to think about this. He said: “An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man’s entire existence”. Simplified it means that if you don’t do in life what you were meant to do, your life has no color. But Mr. de Balzac speaks not of your ‘entire life’, but of your ‘entire existence’ being colorless if you don’t find and live your purpose. That means your physical, emotional, intellectual, and spiritual being, everything you were, are and ever will be – and all that without color! Now, that’s serious stuff! It’s a call for real living! It’s an call to go out, search, find and live your purpose. Maybe you already know what it is. Maybe you’re already living it too, maybe not yet. Maybe you’ve just started to think, feel and wonder about what it might be. But in whatever stage you are, finding and fulfilling your vocation is not something you do once. It’s a life long process. And it’s being in this process consciously, that adds color to your life.
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Take nothing for granted, but wonder, wonder, wonder. To wonder means you’re curious to know things, and that’s the mother of wisdom. But then our daily, weekly, monthly even annual routines, leave little room to wonder. We may like to think we’re open and adventurous, but when it comes down to it, many of us do what we always do. And as I quoted Einstein in this post, “If you do what you always do, you get what you alway get”. So in order to avoid that, in order to live a rich and diverse life, let’s wonder. About everything. Let’s wonder and live a wonderful life!
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