![]() The problem with being a corporate minion is that I was limited to a set group of tasks that I hacked away at day in and day out and became bored. The family business, while it sounds like an ideal situation, being that we are now the owners instead of the employees is a completely different kind of suffering. I took a personal leave of absence because I was pregnant and I moved back to my hometown to help my husband with his family business. Instead of enduring the suffering I chose to make a change. Now I realize that this was just one aspect of my life that was sucked into the existential vacuum. After doing the same thing for a few years I was getting bored. Now that I’ve left I’m not sure if they even continued to maintain the databases that I put in place to track everything. Part of it was my fault as I had created a lot of processes that made it easier and faster for me to do my job but it was hard to teach other people how to utilize my tools so it was hard to grow. I realized that I was spending one third of my life in the corporate world and that one third of my life was beginning to lack meaning. ![]() I believe that I was a hard worker and I had a lot of potential to climb the corporate ladder but as I started the ascent I started wondering … what for? Why am I even doing this, what is it even worth? Climbing the ladder would have pumped my ego, my self worth it would have provided enough funds to do the things I wanted to do in my free time and grow my savings (which was a goal back then this goal has evolved into growing wealth … it sounds the same but it really isn’t). In the process of taking that leap I started wondering what I’m doing with my life, why did I abandon everything I had worked so hard for to start at the beginning again? Well let’s lay out the facts. I believe that this search for meaning began because I took a leap of faith and returned to square one (living in a rental and living in my hometown) to regroup. I’m fast forwarding to the present, we’ll save the reflections for later. Change of attitude (even if we can’t change a situation or circumstance, we can still choose our attitude toward a condition this is often a self-transcending way of finding meaning, especially in unavoidable suffering).Experiencing (receiving from the world: through nature, culture, relationships, interactions with others and with our environment).Creativity (giving something to the world through self-expression: using our talents in various ways i.e., the work we do, the gifts we give to life).It is a waste to be asking the question when you are the answer.” – Joseph CampbellĪccording to Frankl there are three ways to bring meaning to life: Each of us has meaning and we bring it to life. ![]()
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