Post 6 for the Ultimate Blogging Challenge is taken from Blogging For Fun prompt this week - Hopes and Fears.
Hopes
I came across this quote on twitter today:
There are so many interpretations of "follow your bliss". I read many blogs that gave me a diverse perspective of it - some even wrote that following your bliss is not without hardship and pain and others interpreted as living your dream, and yet others, living your life purpose.
There is of course no right or wrong interpretation, but none of these seemed right for me.
To follow your bliss with pain just did not sit with me as the very definition of bliss is "great joy" and joy, in my view, cannot be painful. I also think that it's more than just living your dream. And living your life purpose is just so subjective - what is my life purpose, the reason for my existence, what I have come on earth to do or achieve? And how will I know if I am following my bliss?
A couple of days ago I was walking to the bus stop and had to go back home as I had forgotten something. Although the bus-stop isn't too far from my house, it is downhill and the bus was due in a few minutes. Buses here are usually on time so I had to run like the wind. I am reasonably fit and walking uphill at a sensible pace is achievable but running uphill is another thing altogether. Yet, I ran like the wind. At one point I almost felt like an invisible hand lifted me and flew me home, it was so effortless. That for me is "being in the zone".
And similarly, "following your bliss" for me is when you are "in the zone". When life flows effortlessly, when things come easily and when everything you do and everywhere you go, you feel the joy in your heart. When the work you do brings joy to others and when it doesn't feel like work.
So I hope that I will always follow my bliss, that when those doors open, I recognise them and step through them with joy.
And whichever way you define your bliss, I hope that you will follow it too.
Fears
My first reaction to "fear" was that one should never live in fear as this detracts from following your bliss. But sometimes fear is good - when it protects you from harm. So what detracts from a great life is to live it in constant fear.
And since I prefer to follow my bliss, I will not dwell on fear for long.
Wish you all a blissful day.
Warm Regards
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Hopes
I came across this quote on twitter today:
Follow your bliss and the Universe will open doors for you where there were only walls~ Joseph Campbell
There are so many interpretations of "follow your bliss". I read many blogs that gave me a diverse perspective of it - some even wrote that following your bliss is not without hardship and pain and others interpreted as living your dream, and yet others, living your life purpose.
There is of course no right or wrong interpretation, but none of these seemed right for me.
To follow your bliss with pain just did not sit with me as the very definition of bliss is "great joy" and joy, in my view, cannot be painful. I also think that it's more than just living your dream. And living your life purpose is just so subjective - what is my life purpose, the reason for my existence, what I have come on earth to do or achieve? And how will I know if I am following my bliss?
A couple of days ago I was walking to the bus stop and had to go back home as I had forgotten something. Although the bus-stop isn't too far from my house, it is downhill and the bus was due in a few minutes. Buses here are usually on time so I had to run like the wind. I am reasonably fit and walking uphill at a sensible pace is achievable but running uphill is another thing altogether. Yet, I ran like the wind. At one point I almost felt like an invisible hand lifted me and flew me home, it was so effortless. That for me is "being in the zone".
And similarly, "following your bliss" for me is when you are "in the zone". When life flows effortlessly, when things come easily and when everything you do and everywhere you go, you feel the joy in your heart. When the work you do brings joy to others and when it doesn't feel like work.
So I hope that I will always follow my bliss, that when those doors open, I recognise them and step through them with joy.
And whichever way you define your bliss, I hope that you will follow it too.
Fears
My first reaction to "fear" was that one should never live in fear as this detracts from following your bliss. But sometimes fear is good - when it protects you from harm. So what detracts from a great life is to live it in constant fear.
And since I prefer to follow my bliss, I will not dwell on fear for long.
Wish you all a blissful day.
Warm Regards
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