Do you ever want to be somebody else?  Not someone specifically… so to say.  But.  Do you every want YOU…. yourself …. to be doing something…. else?

Okay… here is a for instance.  Have you ever heard a really cool song… and at just the craziest moment in the song… somebody rings a cowbell.  And it sounds perfect.  Right in the middle of the off-beat, you hear that “clang.”  I want to be the person who rings that bell.

Or.  The race car driver who gets to drive really fast, and take it hard into the turns.  You spin out… smoke squealing from your tires… and suddenly you right yourself.  You punch the clutch, take it back up a notch, and speed into the straightaway.   And the crowd goes crazy as the checkered flag swirls.

Maybe…. you are a ball boy for the Cleveland Indians, or the Pittsburgh Pirates.  On on a crowded Sunday afternoon game, a foul ball dribbles your way.  You pick it up… turn around… and chuck it into the stands to some little kid with one of those really big Number One Signs on her little hand.

I think a lot of people want to be doing something that they aren’t currently doing in life.  We want to do “some other thing” than whatever THIS is.

We may think it might be great to have a different job, or live in another location.  Or to have a list of amazing things we want to try, and cross them all off that list.  These things are all perfectly wonderful.

But perhaps… just maybe…. what we really want to do isn’t halfway across the world.  Nope.  I think it is probably right inside of each one of us.

Our true meaning in life.

We begin by developing purpose and intentions for our own lives..   For us to live complete, plentiful lives… in this crazy and complex world… is not always easy.  Finding what is truly in our hearts helps us figure our way through all of this.  What is in our very core.

I suspect it is vitally important to give our lives some sort of clear direction.  And we do this by exploring what means the most to us.
By developing a life purpose and life intentions.

The next part.  We have to choose to live our life intentions.  We do the next right thing.  We follow our purpose to the best of your ability every day.

It all sounds so very simple.  Yet.  For me, it is quite difficult. If I could only figure mine out.

I see people who are so great at this.  They… each day… change themselves from the inside out.  And it is constructive.  It sort of sends out inspiration and healing… to anyone around them.   Like ripples on water.  Or… like the clang of a bell… at just the right moment in a song.

It is beautiful.

Life is without meaning. You bring the meaning to it. The meaning of life is whatever you ascribe it to be. Being alive is the meaning.  —  Joseph Campbell
    

For the meaning of life differs from man to man, from day to day and from hour to hour. What matters, therefore, is not the meaning of life in general but rather the specific meaning of a person’s life at a given moment.  —  Viktor E. Frankl