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What Are You Doing and Why Are You Doing It?
Not an easy question to answer.
Everyone faces expectations when it comes to doing things in life. Things tend to be done in one of three categories.
- Things you’re doing for yourself.
- The things you’re doing for others.
- Things you’re doing for the world.
By and large, people tend to focus on doing for others and the world. And by the world, I mean that nameless faceless entity that encompasses world affairs, politics, environmentalism, and so on.
While the narrative in the collective consciousness tends to imply (or sometimes state outright) that you should put others (and the world as others) first, this causes a problem. The problem? When you don’t do for yourself, you disempower and deplete yourself. Which means you have very little to give for doing for others.
Frequently, what you are doing and why you are doing it becomes tied to external matters, such as people, institutions, and so on. Because this is the expectation of the collective consciousness, it’s too easy to lose sight of the importance and empowerment of doing for yourself.
