Mistaking Distractions For Purpose
We live a life of reactions, mistaking immediate distractions and external demands for our true purpose. We may think we’re doing our duty, but duty to what? Job? Family? Culture?
When inner peace and clarity are absent, our focus is scattered, and we’re easily pulled in all directions, defined by other people’s whims and fixations. We can either become excited by these activities, or bored.
Without clear inner awareness, we find ourselves caught in a cycle of constant motion without any true fulfilment. To avoid the discomfort of quiet reflection, we engage in perpetual busy-ness, mistaking a full schedule for a meaningful life.
Borrowed goals such as careers, lifestyles, or material gain are milestones which society says are desirable, but we don’t feel complete – even when we achieve them. And so, we need another hit.
Emotional fragmentation occurs where every minor setback, external opinion or unexpected shift in our environment dictates our mood and choices, leaving us feeling unstable and ungrounded.
Ultimately, without stillness, we don’t choose our path; our distractions choose it for us.
We need to protect our focus when our environment gets chaotic. The moment we value our reality of empty cognisance, we arrive at what we’ve been looking for – the purpose of life.
If we don’t feel this is good enough, the cyclic search continues, because we prefer the journey to the arriving – arriving at where we’ve always been. 🙂
